The role of the dictionary
By: edited by Philip B. Gove.
Series: The Bobbs-Merrill series in composition and rhetoric, 2
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: English language -- Lexicography.; Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the dictionary's function, by P. B. Gove.; title: Repetition in defining, by P. B. Gove.; title: Exciting new volume, by A. M. Tyson.; title: Dr. Johnson and Emily Post, by A. W. Dixon.; title: A case for Webster's Third, by F. Christensen.; title: Telling the truth, by R. A. Hall.; title: Lost causes in English usage, by J. J. Lynch.; title: Dictionaries and the English language, by A. H. Marckwardt.; title: Let's stop maligning the dictionary, by B. Evans.; title: Cultural lag and reviewers of Webster III, by K. W. Dykema.; title: Usage in the dictionary, by P. B. Gove.; title: The latest word, by K. Vonnegut.; title: A new big dictionary: its virtues and faults.