Title: Defining the world
Description: Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.
Subjects: Encyclopédies et dictionnaires, Lexikographie, History and criticism, Anglais (Langue), Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais, Lexicographie, Histoire, English language, Wörterbuch, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Histoire et critique, Lexicography, History, Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784, English language, dictionaries, English language, lexicography, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, history and criticism
Places: Englisch
People: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Samuel, 1709-1784 Johnson, Samuel Johnson
Time periods: 18e siècle, 18th century