The Dictionary Wars
The American Fight over the English Language
In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language. The overwhelming questions in the dictionary wars involved which and whose English was truly American and whether a dictionary of English should attempt to be American at all, independent fro…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-18891-1
- EAN: 9780691188911
- Produktnummer: 29273888
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H16.6 cm x B24.6 cm x D3.8 cm 774 g
- Abbildungen: 22 b/w illus. 1 table.
- Gewicht: 774
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Peter Martin is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed biographies Samuel Johnson and A Life of James Boswell. He has taught English literature in the United States and England and divides his time between West Sussex, England, and Spain.
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