Noah Webster and the Invention of Immigration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16307706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Larry Shumsky (Neil Larry Shumsky, Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech, specializes in the history of American cities and of immigration and has published books and articles in both fields., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 126-135 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq.2008.81.1.126 |
| OpenAlex | W2019320207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Like all lexicographers, Noah Webster built his dictionaries on the works of others. But in the case of the verb to immigrate and its derivatives, he coined a new definition, one that has had a profound impact on how Americans conceive of the phenomenon of immigration
Archaeology · Epistemology · Immigration · Lexicography · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Verb · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 1.56 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |