The Role of the Dictionary,

Gove, Philip Babcock, 1902-1972.

The Role of the Dictionary, Edited by Philip B. Gove. - Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1967] - 63 p. 27 cm. - The Bobbs-Merrill series in composition and rhetoric, 2 .

Introduction: the dictionary's function, by P. B. Gove.--Repetition in defining, by P. B. Gove.--Exciting new volume, by A. M. Tyson.--Dr. Johnson and Emily Post, by A. W. Dixon.--A case for Webster's Third, by F. Christensen.--Telling the truth, by R. A. Hall.--Lost causes in English usage, by J. J. Lynch.--Dictionaries and the English language, by A. H. Marckwardt.--Let's stop maligning the dictionary, by B. Evans.--Cultural lag and reviewers of Webster III, by K. W. Dykema.--Usage in the dictionary, by P. B. Gove.--The latest word, by K. Vonnegut.--A new big dictionary: its virtues and faults.

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English Language--Lexicography.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries--History and Criticism.

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