The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Today it is still referred to as the first English dictionary thereby showing how decisively - and inaccurately - Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this collection examine the already flourishin
The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.
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'Anne C. McDermott does a masterful job of guiding readers through the complicated history and development of 18th-century lexicography' 18th Century Intelligencer
Contents: Introduction; Part I Background: 18th-century dictionaries and
the Enlightenment, Carey McIntosh. Part II Overview: Pronouncing systems in
18th-century dictionaries, Esther K. Sheldon; Vulgar tongues: canting
dictionaries and the language of the people in 18th-century Britain, Janet
Sorensen. Part III Individual Monolingual Dictionaries: John Kersey, A New
English Dictionary (1702): The authorship of A New English Dictionary (1702),
Christian Heddesheimer; John Kersey and the ordinary words of English, N.E.
Osselton. Edward Cocker, Cockers English Dictionary (1704) (rev.John
Hawkins, second edition 1715): Edward Cocker and Cocker's English Dictionary,
Gertrude E. Noyes. Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English
Dictionary (1721; volume II 1727); Dictionarium Britannicum (1730; second
edition 1736): The drudgery of defining: Johnsons debt to Baileys
Dictionarium Britannicum, David McCracken. Benjamin Martin, Lingua Britannica
Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary (1749): Benjamin Martin the linguist,
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English
Language (1755): Johnson and the Renaissance dictionary, Paul J. Korshin; The
compilation methods of Johnson's Dictionary, Anne McDermott; 17th-century
jurisprudence and 18th-century lexicography: sources for Johnsons notion of
authority, John Stone; Johnson's Dictionary and legal dictionaries, J.T.
Scanlan; Johnson's Dictionary and the politics of 'standard English',
Nicholas Hudson. Joseph Nicol Scott and Nathan Bailey, A New Universal
Etymological English Dictionary (1755): Notes on serialization and
competitive publishing: Johnson's and Bailey's Dictionaries, 1755, Philip B.
Gove. John Entick, The New Spelling Dictionary (1765); Ann Fisher, An
Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
(1773): John Entick's and Ann Fisher's Dictionaries: an 18th-century case of
(cons)piracy, Alicia RodrĆguez-Ćlvarez and Maria Esther RodrĆguez-
Anne C. McDermott is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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