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Academy dictionaries 1600-1800 /

"This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Considine, John (John P.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Chapter 1 Introduction; 'Nous nous étonnames, de voir l'Abada': a dictionary reader at work; The shape of this book; Chapter 2 The beginnings of the academy tradition; A remarkable dictionary entry; The study of the Italian language in the sixteenth century; Italian academies; The Accademia della Crusca and the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612, 1628); The third and fourth editions of the Vocabolario (1691, 1729-1738).
  • The achievement of the Vocabolario della CruscaChapter 3 The making of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, and its seventeenth-century rivals; Early modern French lexicography and the founding of the Académie françoise; The dictionary project of the Académie from 1634 to 1672; The dictionary project of the Académie from 1672 to 1692; The Dictionnaire françois of Richelet (1680); The Dictionaire universel of Furetière (1690); Three kinds of dictionary; Chapter 4 The Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise from its publication to the end of the eighteenth century.
  • The publication of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie (1694)The reception of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie; The Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences of Thomas Corneille (1694); From the second to the fourth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1718, 1740, 1762); The dictionary projects of Voltaire and Pougens (1778 onwards); The fifth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1798); The founding of an academy tradition; Chapter 5 The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its offshoots in Germany and Denmark from the 1640s to the mid eighteenth century.
  • The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its dictionary projects (1640s onwards) and Kaspar Stieler's Teutschen Sprache Stammbaum ... Peder Syv, Matthias Moth, and their Danish dictionary projects (c. 1668-1692, 1697-1717); Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz and his historical and etymological German dictionary project (c. 1705); Chapter 6 The academy tradition from the seventeenth century to 1750; Projected English dictionaries in the academy tradition (1660 to 1744); Ephraim Chambers and his Cyclopaedia (1728); The Societät der Wissenschaften of Berlin and its dictionary projects (1700, 1711).
  • The Real Academia Española and the Diccionario de la lengua castellana (1726-1739)Academy dictionaries and national languages at mid-century; Chapter 7 Samuel Johnson and Johann Christoph Adelung; Another remarkable dictionary entry; Johnson's Plan of a Dictionary (1747); The making of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755); The structure and reception of Johnson's Dictionary; Two predecessors of Adelung: Matthias Kramer (1700-1702) and J.L. Frisch (1741).