Conflicted representations: language, lexicography, and Johnson’s “langscape” of war
Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert “a secret influence on the understanding” so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. Reference works, he stressed, were no exception. As this essay explores, Johnson’s...
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Duke University Press
2020
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