DICTIONARY

Rise and fall of Dictionary

Table of Contents

Introduction2

Discussion Analysis2

About Dictionary2

Origins of Dictionaries3

The Hard-Word Dictionaries3

The Universal Dictionaries3

Johnson's dictionary4

Different Instances and the Oxford Dictionaries5

An overview of twentieth century English6

Boundary of English6

The stable position in Linguistic7

Restrictions on language9

Lexis Dreadnought10

Modern English usages and the rise of Dictionary11

Trend of Dictionaries12

Scholarly and Popular dictionaries13

Conclusion14

Rise and fall of dictionary

Introduction

The paper intends to highlight the reasons of rise and fall occurred under the publication of academic dictionaries for introducing new words. English is the language that contained number of changes in its vocabulary and thus that affected over the publication of dictionaries. The paper also deeply defines about the origin of dictionary and how language persuaded or forced the publishers to stop printing dictionaries with new innovative words. The research is expected to contribute greatly under the academia in general and particularly with the reference of the period Twentieth century. It has been observed that publishing houses like Oxford, Cambridge and famous printing institute's slowed down their printing of new version and were not introducing new words into the dictionaries. The reason behind certain circumstances is essential to study and acknowledge ourselves with the new advancement and history behind its logic.

Discussion Analysis

About Dictionary

Dictionary is a broad name of a reference book that normally describes the meaning of words entered in the sequence of alphabetic order. It also comprises the works of a wide-ranging nature, for instance The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History. The books are deeply related with entries of alphabets that the expressions dictionary command is equal with alphabetical order. In the matter of fact, the works of many middle ages known dictionaries that are arranged in a different manner, and great number of reference books, like gazetteers or thesauruses are raised for the convenience of the people as 'dictionaries'. There are number of kinds in dictionaries, and among them; the usual contrast between unilingual or monolingual dictionaries that define and list the words of single language. On other hands, bilingual dictionaries propose the counterparts of Language A in Linguistic B, and vice versa (Bauer, 1994).

Origins of Dictionaries

The initial models of the dictionary were the word lists of West Asian bilingual of the 2nd millennium BC. The words Akkadian and Sumerian carved in equivalent columns writing and were thematically organized. Although, after the discovery of alphabets under the same millennium, but number of centuries later became a common tool for forming information. It was the effort of Akkadians (Babylonians) that the lists came into existence (Charles, 2009). He inbred through the conquest traditions and culture of Sumer and devised the collections of symbolsas resources by which their transcribers can learn what the traditional language of writing was. Later in medieval Europe over two thousand years, the similar belief was drafted when transcribers who spoke colloquial languages educated to write and read in Latin.Thedictionaries of Europeans had multilingual lists of Latin words that described in questionto the vernacular of the learners (Bauer, 1994). Latin words were made through the Promptoriumparvulorumsiveclericorum that compiled the data in the year of ...