The Dictionary Wars: The Struggle for Language from the Birth of the Enlightenment to the French Revolution - David Eick - Books - Equinox Publishing Ltd - 9781845531591 - June 30, 2018
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The Dictionary Wars: The Struggle for Language from the Birth of the Enlightenment to the French Revolution


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Narrates and analyzes a series of polemics surrounding French lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book suggests that the special place of dictionaries in French culture, along with the specificity of France as a linguistically focused community, has a long history.


288 pages, 50 b&w half tones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 30, 2018
ISBN13 9781845531591
Publishers Equinox Publishing Ltd
Pages 288
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   608 g   (Weight (estimated))
Language English  

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