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22 produkter
Felix Holt
The Radical
Av George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone
Häftad, 1995
175 kr
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When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's …
Felix Holt
The Radical
Av George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone
E-bok, 2006
108 kr
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When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's …
Talking Proper
The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
E-bok, 2003
604 kr
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Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its …
Dictionaries
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda …
Dictionaries
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda …
Samuel Johnson
The Arc of the Pendulum
Av Lynda Mugglestone, Freya Johnston
E-bok, 2012
1139 kr
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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt''s oft-cited comparison between Johnson''s prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson''s prose style as ''a species of rhyming'' in which …
Oxford History of English
E-bok, 2012
169 kr
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Lynda Mugglestone''s hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal''s new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, …
Oxford History of English
E-bok, 2012
169 kr
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Lynda Mugglestone''s hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal''s new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, …
Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words
E-bok, 2015
300 kr
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Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson''s writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these …
Writing a War of Words
Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One
E-bok, 2021
353 kr
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Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark''s unique series of …
Writing a War of Words
Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One
E-bok, 2021
353 kr
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Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark''s unique series of …
Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Inbunden, 2000
3635 kr
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Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of the first English dictionary published by Oxford. Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the first OED, …
Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words
Häftad, 2018
403 kr
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Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these …
Writing a War of Words
Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One
Inbunden, 2021
489 kr
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Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of …
Talking Proper
The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
Inbunden, 2003
1091 kr
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Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its …
Talking Proper
The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
Häftad, 2007
1056 kr
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Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its …
Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Häftad, 2001
968 kr
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The authors of this book draw on previously unpublished archive material to explore the pioneering endeavours of the scholars who conceived the Oxford English Dictionary and, with the assistance of an army of correspondents, brought it into being after half a century of Herculean labour. Its first …
Dictionaries
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2011
116 kr
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Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda …
Samuel Johnson
The Arc of the Pendulum
Av Freya Johnston, Lynda Mugglestone
Inbunden, 2012
1418 kr
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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of rhyming' in which 'the …
The Oxford History of English
Av Lynda Mugglestone, Lynda Mugglestone
Häftad, 2012
298 kr
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Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, …
Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words
Inbunden, 2015
841 kr
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Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these …
Lost for Words
The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
Inbunden, 2005
345 kr
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The untold story of the complex word battles fought by the creators of the first Oxford English Dictionary.The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) holds a cherished position in English literary culture. The story behind the creation of what is indisputably the greatest dictionary in the language has …
