But What’s a Dictionary For.pptVIP

Unit Eleven: But What’s a Dictionary For ? Teaching Procedure Individual presentation on Noah Webster and Webster’s Third New International 2. Discussion on question about what’s a dictionary for: Part 1. (Para. 1-3) 1) sums up the worst attacks on the dictionary 2)?states the claim of the compilers 3) calls for an examination of dictionary making, hence the question of “what’s a dictionary for?” 3. Homework 1. Noah Webster and America’s First Dictionary an American lexicographer, journalist, textbook author, spelling reformer, advocate of cultural independence of the United States translator of the Bible an ardent federalist Noah Webster’s dictionaries 1) A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language: his first dictionary of the English language (1806) 2) An American Dictionary of the English Language: his magnum opus, the first edition (1828) 3) An American Dictionary of the English Language: the second edition (1840) 4) publishing rights of his dictionary were acquired by George and Charles Merriam (1843) 5) George and Charles Merriam brought out a version edited by Noah Webster’s son-in-law, professor Chauncey A. Goodrich of Yale College (1847) The 1847 edition became the first Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary. 6) The second edition was published in 1934. (The first edition and second edition were based on prescriptive linguistics.) 7) The third edition (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary) was published in 1961. (with Philip B. Gove, a famous descriptive linguist as its editor) (It was based on descriptive linguistics) Content: 2752 pages, over 460,000 entries, 200,000 usage examples, over 3,000 pictorial illustrations, more than 1,000 synonym articles; an addition of 100,000 new words or new definitions that were not included in the Second International. 2) three virtues in dictionary making: accuracy, clearness, comprehensiveness 3) enormous work and money: over 200 permanent staf