Samuel Johnson – A ‘Harmless Drudge’ аnd His Dictionary
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2012.4.3Keywords:
Samuel Johnson, the English language, lexicography, lexicographer, dictionary, codificationAbstract
Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was first published in 1755. This monumental work, often simply referred to as ‘the Dictionary’, appeared in numerous editions, abridgments and adaptations, serving as a standard of English for more than a hundred and fifty years to be superseded only by The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) at the beginning of the twentieth century. Many scholarly and popular works have been written about the Dictionary. This paper adds to them by attempting a brief survey of the social and intellectual climate in Britain in the first half of the 18th century – the time of the codification of the English language – and of Johnson’s work on the Dictionary.
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