The Intertextual Web of Johnson's Dictionary and the Concept of Authorship

What is distinctively different about Johnson's Dictionary, marking it off from earlier monolingual English dictionaries, is his use of quotations to illustrate the meanings of words. But Johnson's criteria for selecting these quotations were more than just linguistic. He saw his Dictionar...

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Published in:	Digital Studies
Main Author:	Rob Kling
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 1996-09-01
Subjects:	Johnson authorship English dictionaries quotations encyclopedicknowledge linguistic usage
Online Access:	https://www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/7112/