Samuel Johnson & Journey Into Words C

by Lynda Mugglestone

Book Overview

Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199679908
• ISBN13: 9780199679904
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"