The dictionary wars: the American fight over the English language

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 lexicograph...

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1. Verfasser: Martin, Peter 1940- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:x, 358 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9780691188911

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