Glossaries Of Americanisms: Vol II / Edition 1

by Daniel R Davis

Overview

American lexicography has a distinguished and familiar tradition. Elwyn (1859) is intended as a corrective response to the excessive identification of Americanisms, but in fact represents what one might term the ‘traditionalist’ position. Fallows (1883) is significant as a treatment of Americanisms and Briticisms for a general audience. Norton (1890) is a specific application to American political life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415279666
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/23/2003
Series:	History and Development of World Englishes Ser.
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Volume 2: Glossaries of Americanisms, Introduction, 1. Alfred L. Elwyn: Glossary of Supposed Americanisms, 2. Samuel Fallows: Hand Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, Colloquial and Provincial Words and Phrases, 3. Charles Ledyard Norton: Political Americanisms: A Glossary of Terms and Phrases Current at Different Periods in American Politics