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A study in eighteenth-century vocabulary and usage

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London
Kiadó: University of London-The Athlone Press
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Vászon
Oldalszám: 322 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 22 cm x 18 cm
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The aim of this book is to let us see our language as a living and developing human activity in a period of its history which offers special advantages for the purpose. Miss Tucker's method is to analyse in the course of a connected narrative a large, wide-ranging body of words and phrases from two principal points of view. In Part One, using as the basis of evidence and discussion a few representative critical journals, including those with which Johnson, Goldsmith, Smollett, and Burke were prominently associated, she asks how the eighteenth century looked at its own language: what, for example, it esteemed elegant or vulgar, held correct or a solecism, found new or old-fashioned, impressive or funny. In Part Two the emphasis shifts from the eighteenth century's views of itself to our views of the eighteenth century as we look back. Here the interest centres by contrast on our difficulties, our discoveries, and our conclusions and in the process our understanding of... Tovább

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The aim of this book is to let us see our language as a living and developing human activity in a period of its history which offers special advantages for the purpose. Miss Tucker's method is to analyse in the course of a connected narrative a large, wide-ranging body of words and phrases from two principal points of view. In Part One, using as the basis of evidence and discussion a few representative critical journals, including those with which Johnson, Goldsmith, Smollett, and Burke were prominently associated, she asks how the eighteenth century looked at its own language: what, for example, it esteemed elegant or vulgar, held correct or a solecism, found new or old-fashioned, impressive or funny. In Part Two the emphasis shifts from the eighteenth century's views of itself to our views of the eighteenth century as we look back. Here the interest centres by contrast on our difficulties, our discoveries, and our conclusions and in the process our understanding of eighteenth-century literature and manners is immeasurably sharpened.
The author is Reader in English in the University of Bristol. An important byproduct of the investigation is that she is able to establish eighteenth-century sources for a number of words not recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary for this period and, in other instances, to find within the century earlier occurrences than those noted by the O.E.D. Vissza

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