OED Flashcards
Johnson’s favoured authors
Milton Dryden Shakespeare The Bible
Brewer claims many of the authors use din the OED were…
“Unambiguously literary”
difficulty with poetic quotes is they rely on ….
connotations and nuances rather than semantic meaning
Brewer says the OED sometimes gets around reliance on connotations by…
“unmooring” quotes from their poetic context, using just the line or phrase with the word in
Why wouldn’t we want to get rid of quotations form the OED (3 points)
1) contextual information
2) relative currency
3) connotations and nuance
lexicographers document a conflict between… in giving word definitions?
denotation and connotation
denotation is…
the literal meaning of a word
connotation is…
ideas or feelings words evoke, metaphorical meanings
Murray’s first port of call for quotations was…
“all the great English writers of all ages”
Oxford Dictionaries Website claims…
to show how languages are used not how they should be used
Johnson made…. whilst selecting quotes for his dicitonary
Moral and Aesthetic judgements
Murray refused to privelege literary quotations if… despite pressure from…
they were inferior to others…. Oxford University Press
Brewer claims poetic quotations cannot give…
“stable meaning of a word or sense”
