UID:
almafu_9959402592702883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-98650-3
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1-139-99114-0
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1-316-01171-2
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1-316-01395-2
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1-316-00271-3
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1-107-74199-8
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1-316-00721-9
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1-316-00495-3
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1-316-00945-9
Content:
This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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""The founding of an academy tradition""""Chapter 5 The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its offshoots in Germany and Denmark from the 1640s to the mid eighteenth century""; ""The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its dictionary projects (1640s onwards) and Kaspar Stieler�s Teutschen Sprache Stammbaum ...""; ""Peder Syv, Matthias Moth, and their Danish dictionary projects (c. 1668�1692, 1697�1717)""; ""Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz and his historical and etymological German dictionary project (c. 1705)""; ""Chapter 6 The academy tradition from the seventeenth century to 1750""
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""The structure and reception of Johnson�s Dictionary""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-41512-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-07112-7
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107741997
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