Vincent L. Wimbush
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199873579
- eISBN:
- 9780199949595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199873579.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Chapter 6 opens a window onto Equiano’s understanding and practice of the power that scripturalization represents.
Chapter 6 opens a window onto Equiano’s understanding and practice of the power that scripturalization represents.
Florian Cramer
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262062749
- eISBN:
- 9780262273343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262062749.003.0023
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter describes the detailed relationship software and language; it states that software processes the natural language and constructs in programming languages. The chapter explores the ...
More
This chapter describes the detailed relationship software and language; it states that software processes the natural language and constructs in programming languages. The chapter explores the in-depth analysis of software implementation languages and software written languages, and provides a discussion on the role of computer control languages, machine languages, common human languages, and different language variants. It concludes with the differentiation between the computer programming languages and coding concepts in the computing sector.Less
This chapter describes the detailed relationship software and language; it states that software processes the natural language and constructs in programming languages. The chapter explores the in-depth analysis of software implementation languages and software written languages, and provides a discussion on the role of computer control languages, machine languages, common human languages, and different language variants. It concludes with the differentiation between the computer programming languages and coding concepts in the computing sector.
Lynda Mugglestone
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199679904
- eISBN:
- 9780191760099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679904.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language, Lexicography
This chapter engages in detail with Johnson’s reading of time and language in the Dictionary, as well as embedding it within contemporary readings of time (and its desired control). If languages, for ...
More
This chapter engages in detail with Johnson’s reading of time and language in the Dictionary, as well as embedding it within contemporary readings of time (and its desired control). If languages, for Johnson, are the real ‘pedigrees of nation’, it is time which can emerge as the true ‘tyrant’ in the forms of national history which emerge. Time easily deposes the lexicographer by forces which cannot be controlled. The chapter examines Johnson’s engagement with the history of English, alongside the conflicting demands of etymology, semantic shift, and language practice, as well as innovation, obsolescence, and lexical death. The interconnectedness of time and change emerges as a salient theme in Johnson’s approach to language, poised between images of decay and mutability on one hand, and the natural and ineluctable on the other.Less
This chapter engages in detail with Johnson’s reading of time and language in the Dictionary, as well as embedding it within contemporary readings of time (and its desired control). If languages, for Johnson, are the real ‘pedigrees of nation’, it is time which can emerge as the true ‘tyrant’ in the forms of national history which emerge. Time easily deposes the lexicographer by forces which cannot be controlled. The chapter examines Johnson’s engagement with the history of English, alongside the conflicting demands of etymology, semantic shift, and language practice, as well as innovation, obsolescence, and lexical death. The interconnectedness of time and change emerges as a salient theme in Johnson’s approach to language, poised between images of decay and mutability on one hand, and the natural and ineluctable on the other.
Lynda Mugglestone
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199679904
- eISBN:
- 9780191760099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679904.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language, Lexicography
This chapter provides an overview of the book as a whole, looking at Johnson’s interest in the trope of lexicography as a form of journey, and the ways in which this inherited trope was to be made ...
More
This chapter provides an overview of the book as a whole, looking at Johnson’s interest in the trope of lexicography as a form of journey, and the ways in which this inherited trope was to be made entirely his own. Johnson’s work is placed within the history of lexicography, as well as within the linguistic milieu of the eighteenth century, and associated demands for a new type of dictionary which might ‘fix’ the language, reducing mutability to stasis. It introduces important themes therefore of conquest and control in the world of words, as well as considering the themes of departure and redirection which prove to be salient in what Johnson does.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the book as a whole, looking at Johnson’s interest in the trope of lexicography as a form of journey, and the ways in which this inherited trope was to be made entirely his own. Johnson’s work is placed within the history of lexicography, as well as within the linguistic milieu of the eighteenth century, and associated demands for a new type of dictionary which might ‘fix’ the language, reducing mutability to stasis. It introduces important themes therefore of conquest and control in the world of words, as well as considering the themes of departure and redirection which prove to be salient in what Johnson does.
Lynda Mugglestone
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199679904
- eISBN:
- 9780191760099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679904.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language, Lexicography
This chapter considers the state of the written language that is established by means of the Dictionary, in both intention and actuality. A particular focus lies in the conflicting models of order ...
More
This chapter considers the state of the written language that is established by means of the Dictionary, in both intention and actuality. A particular focus lies in the conflicting models of order which Johnson’s writing on language reveals, as well as the political modelling of control by which Johnson was expected to assume dictatorship over an errant state of words. The nature — and limits — of power are, for Johnson, for his patron Lord Chesterfield, and for the booksellers who commissioned the text, of marked interest in terms of language. Paying close attention to spelling, the chapter probes the nature of order and its problematic imposition by means of a reference book, as well as Johnson’s scepticism in terms of individual attempts to reform the ways in which words are used.Less
This chapter considers the state of the written language that is established by means of the Dictionary, in both intention and actuality. A particular focus lies in the conflicting models of order which Johnson’s writing on language reveals, as well as the political modelling of control by which Johnson was expected to assume dictatorship over an errant state of words. The nature — and limits — of power are, for Johnson, for his patron Lord Chesterfield, and for the booksellers who commissioned the text, of marked interest in terms of language. Paying close attention to spelling, the chapter probes the nature of order and its problematic imposition by means of a reference book, as well as Johnson’s scepticism in terms of individual attempts to reform the ways in which words are used.
