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The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove. Based on original research and interviews with the people who knew and worked with Gove, this is a human story as well as the story of the making of a dictionary. The author skilfully interweaves an account of Gove's character and working habits with the evolution of the dictionary. The reception given Webster's Third - now widely regarded as one of the greatest dictionaries of our time - illuminates public misconceptions about language and the role of dictionaries.
This book gives students two essential language references in one handy volume featuring nearly 60,000 alphabetical dictionary entries integrated with 13,500 thesaurus entries with an extensive synonym lists. Nearly 500 new thesaurus entries have bee
Where Theory and Practice Meet is a collection of nineteen papers in translation studies. Unlike many similar books published in recent decades, which are mostly non-translation-oriented, veering to issues with little or no relevance to translation, this book focuses on the translation process, on theory formulation with reference to actual translation, on getting to grips with translation problems, and on explaining translation in language which can be understood by the general reader. Perceptive and wide-ranging, the book covers language pairs that include Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and Classical Greek, and discusses, among other things, translations of Dante’s La Divina Commedia; translations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Goethe’s “Prometheus” as a case of untranslatability; the challenge of translating Garcilaso de la Vega’s “Primera Égloga” into Chinese; John Minford’s translation of martial arts fiction; and Lin Shu’s translation of Alexandre Dumas’s La Dame aux camélias.
Advanced principles of grammar and creative writing are emphasized in this workbook, along with spelling rules. Students learn how to make a subject and verb agree, how to handle transitive and intransitive verbs, and how to identify subordinating conjunctions and adverb clauses. Creative writing activities include writing paragraphs, expository writing drills, and preparing a research paper. Grade 11.
The dictionary entries are based on the second edition of the Random House dictionary of the English language.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Version 2.0 for Windows 3.1/95, is the only American unabridged dictionary on CD-ROM! It includes all three of these essential features: * fully searchable text * illustrations * spoken pronunciations And using it is as simple as Click, Look, and Listen. Click! Choose among four ways to search the dictionary. Whichever search type you choose, a single click brings up the word you want with the full text of the dictionary entry--definitions, written pronunciations, parts of speech, etymologies, synonyms and antonyms, usage notes, and more. Look! This dictionary is not just words--more than 2,400 spot maps and illustrations await you. Just click on...
Discover ways to raise staff awareness regarding diversity!Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity In the Library: Principals and Issues for Administrators is an academic guide to diversity issues such as affirmative action, career development of minorities in the library science profession, racism, and scholarship solutions to increase the diversity of people in the library and information science profession. From this manual, you will gain a deeper understanding of diversity and its implementation in your library. Scholarly and poignant, this book is recommended to academics, administrators, library professionals, and students who want to improve the diversity of libraries and the professi...