Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries and the Enlightenment

McIntosh, Carey

doi:10.2307/3508753

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“…That call was famously answered by the illustrious Samuel Johnson (1709–1784). A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, caught the imagination and favour of contemporary society and has, subsequently, attracted the most attention by later scholars (see McIntosh : 3).…”

Section: Dictionaries and Grammarsmentioning

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Notes on eighteenth‐century dictionary grammars

Tyrkkö

2013

Trans of the Philol Soc

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As the volume of new dictionaries and grammars surged during the eighteenth century, one of the natural by-products was the introduction of brief grammars as part of the preliminaries of dictionaries. This paper looks at what these grammars were like, what purposes they served, who wrote them and how much copying was involved in their production. The argument is made that dictionary grammars were often included for the added value they brought to the books as products, and not for the purpose of providing readers with thorough grammatical knowledge.

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confidence: 99%