English test part 2
Terms
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- ultimate dictionary authority today
- Oxford
- science of dictonary making
- lexicography
- believed that language change was the result of language corruption
- langsuage purists
- a record of the way in which language is actually used
- descriptive mehtod
- Johnson's dictionary
- Dictionary of the English language
- attempts to slow or halt language change
- language fixing
- a record of scholarly opinion regarding how language should be used
- prescriptive method
- the use of literary texts to establish context for definitions of words
- historical method
- the history of a word
- etymology
- grammarian's attempt to keep the language from "decaying."
- Johnson's dictionary
- dictionary set a standard for American English
- Webster's
- dictionary represented the language of an educated elite
- Johnson's
- dictionary set a standard for British English
- Johnsons
- dictionary was the first to make wide-spread use of etymology
- Webs
- dictionary represented the language of a broad base of educated people
- webs
- dictionary was the first to use the historical method
- Johns
- modeled patriotism and Christian conduct
- Webs
- the word as it should be pronounced
- respelling
- Dictionaries are always prescriptive
- Johnson
- The best writers and speakers should serve as authority on matters of usage
- webs and jons
- Definitions should be derived through the historical method
- webs and johns
- a dictionary containing all the words of a language
- unabridged