Sidney I Landau
Biographic Data
| ID | 743941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidney I Landau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidney I |
| FAMILY NAME | Landau |
| SIGNATURE | LANDAU S I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cambridge University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Johnson's Influence on Webster and Worcester in Early American Lexicography
Always competitive, Webster sought to supplant Johnson as the preeminent lexicographer of the English language. This paper, focusing on the treatment of a few representative phrasal verbs, concludes that both Webster's and Worcester's early dictionaries followed Johnson's closely, but Webster demonstrated more originality and introduced innovations in methodology that anticipated mainstream dictionary practice in twentieth-century America
Panel Discussion on Pronunciation System and American English Lexicography
Other| December 01 1998 Panel Discussion on Pronunciation System and American English Lexicography Victoria Neufeldt; Victoria Neufeldt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Enid Pearsons; Enid Pearsons Random House Dictionaries Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sidney I. Landau; Sidney I. Landau Cambridge University Press Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Frederick C. Mish Fr…
Panel Discussion on Pronunciation System and American English Lexicography
The Expression of Changing Social Values in Dictionaries
Research Article| December 01 1994 5. The Expression of Changing Social Values in Dictionaries: Focus on Family Relationships Sidney I. Landau Sidney I. Landau Cambridge University Press Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 32–39. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sidney I. Landau; 5. The Express…
The American College Dictionaries
The American College Dictionaries Get access Sidney I. Landau Sidney I. Landau Cambridge University PressNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 7, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 311–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/7.4.311 Published: 01 December 1994
Native American
Of Lexicography, Computers, and Norms
A matter of life and death
When a word like ‘abortion’ is in the dictionaries as well as the news, the definitions on offer can cast light on areas of change and uncertainty in the language
Dictionaries
Harmless Drudgery
The Doubleday Dictionary Defended
Popular Meanings of Scientific and Technical Terms
BECAUSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY have had so profound impact on our society, it should come as no surprise that they are the source in recent years of growing number of popular senses and words.' Many of these new words and meanings have been well covered by dictionaries although they may be condemned by the authors of usage guides; however, popular meanings that appear to conflict with the imposed scientific ones are conspicuously absent from some…
The Egalitarian Spirit and Attitudes toward Usage
I N THE FIRST LESSON of highly successful direct-mail program called Magic Power of Words (n.d., p. 1), potential subscribers are promised that by expanding their vocabulary learning correct usage they will experience an exhilarating feeling of self-assurance, advance in their jobs, achieve leadership over others. The reader is warned that a person's use of language is often taken, rightly or wrongly, as measure of his native intelligence, of his…
Among the New Words
Scientific and Technical Entries in American Dictionaries
Little Boy and Little Girl
ANYONE WHO has ever found himself, or, more typically, herself, in a playground minding a three-year-old has on innumerable occasions had to answer question, Is that your little boy (or little girl) ? The alternatives to little boy/little girl are boy/girl and son/daughter. Either pair would be accounted more formal, especially latter. Only little boy/little girl can describe in vernacular a boy or girl considered too old to be called a baby-usua…
Scientific and Technical Entries in American Dictionaries
Johnson's Influence on Webster and Worcester in Early American Lexicography
Always competitive, Webster sought to supplant Johnson as the preeminent lexicographer of the English language. This paper, focusing on the treatment of a few representative phrasal verbs, concludes that both Webster's and Worcester's early dictionaries followed Johnson's closely, but Webster demonstrated more originality and introduced innovations in methodology that anticipated mainstream dictionary practice in twentieth-century America
Native American
The Egalitarian Spirit and Attitudes toward Usage
I N THE FIRST LESSON of highly successful direct-mail program called Magic Power of Words (n.d., p. 1), potential subscribers are promised that by expanding their vocabulary learning correct usage they will experience an exhilarating feeling of self-assurance, advance in their jobs, achieve leadership over others. The reader is warned that a person's use of language is often taken, rightly or wrongly, as measure of his native intelligence, of his…
Little Boy and Little Girl
ANYONE WHO has ever found himself, or, more typically, herself, in a playground minding a three-year-old has on innumerable occasions had to answer question, Is that your little boy (or little girl) ? The alternatives to little boy/little girl are boy/girl and son/daughter. Either pair would be accounted more formal, especially latter. Only little boy/little girl can describe in vernacular a boy or girl considered too old to be called a baby-usua…
Among the New Words
Scientific and Technical Entries in American Dictionaries
The Egalitarian Spirit and Attitudes toward Usage
I N THE FIRST LESSON of highly successful direct-mail program called Magic Power of Words (n.d., p. 1), potential subscribers are promised that by expanding their vocabulary learning correct usage they will experience an exhilarating feeling of self-assurance, advance in their jobs, achieve leadership over others. The reader is warned that a person's use of language is often taken, rightly or wrongly, as measure of his native intelligence, of his…
Popular Meanings of Scientific and Technical Terms
BECAUSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY have had so profound impact on our society, it should come as no surprise that they are the source in recent years of growing number of popular senses and words.' Many of these new words and meanings have been well covered by dictionaries although they may be condemned by the authors of usage guides; however, popular meanings that appear to conflict with the imposed scientific ones are conspicuously absent from some…
The Doubleday Dictionary Defended
Dictionaries
Harmless Drudgery
A matter of life and death
When a word like ‘abortion’ is in the dictionaries as well as the news, the definitions on offer can cast light on areas of change and uncertainty in the language
Of Lexicography, Computers, and Norms
The Expression of Changing Social Values in Dictionaries
Research Article| December 01 1994 5. The Expression of Changing Social Values in Dictionaries: Focus on Family Relationships Sidney I. Landau Sidney I. Landau Cambridge University Press Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 32–39. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sidney I. Landau; 5. The Express…
The American College Dictionaries
The American College Dictionaries Get access Sidney I. Landau Sidney I. Landau Cambridge University PressNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 7, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 311–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/7.4.311 Published: 01 December 1994
Native American
Panel Discussion on Pronunciation System and American English Lexicography
Other| December 01 1998 Panel Discussion on Pronunciation System and American English Lexicography Victoria Neufeldt; Victoria Neufeldt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Enid Pearsons; Enid Pearsons Random House Dictionaries Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sidney I. Landau; Sidney I. Landau Cambridge University Press Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Frederick C. Mish Fr…
Panel Discussion on Pronunciation System and American English Lexicography
Johnson's Influence on Webster and Worcester in Early American Lexicography
Always competitive, Webster sought to supplant Johnson as the preeminent lexicographer of the English language. This paper, focusing on the treatment of a few representative phrasal verbs, concludes that both Webster's and Worcester's early dictionaries followed Johnson's closely, but Webster demonstrated more originality and introduced innovations in methodology that anticipated mainstream dictionary practice in twentieth-century America
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