Conflicted Representations: Language, Lexicography, and Johnson's "Langscape" of War

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1215/00982601-8718666

L. Mugglestone

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Abstract

Abstract:Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert "a secret influence on the understanding" so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. Reference works, he stressed, were no exception. As this essay explores, Johnson's precepts prove equally illuminating for his own work, and his representations of war and conflict. On one level, his Dictionary of 1755 is a source of formal exposition in which the meaning of war is anatomized across a range of entries. On another, those who consult its pages are presented with war as an ethical or socio-moral problem, freighted with meanings of a very different kind.

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冲突的表现:语言、词典编纂和约翰逊的战争“景观”

摘要:正如塞缪尔·约翰逊在1754年即将完成的《英语词典》中所说的那样，书籍总是“对理解产生一种秘密的影响”，从而以公开和隐蔽的方式向读者提供信息。他强调，参考书也不例外。正如本文所探讨的那样，约翰逊的戒律对他自己的作品以及他对战争和冲突的描述同样具有启发性。在某种程度上，他的1755年词典是正式阐述的来源，其中通过一系列条目剖析了战争的含义。另一方面，阅读这本书的人会看到，战争是一个伦理或社会道德问题，承载着截然不同的含义。

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期刊介绍： Committed to interdisciplinary exchange, Eighteenth-Century Life addresses all aspects of European and world culture during the long eighteenth century, 1660–1815. The most wide-ranging journal of eighteenth-century studies, it also encourages diverse methodologies—from close reading to cultural studies—and it always welcomes suggestions for review essays, special issues, and innovative approaches. Among Eighteenth-Century Life’s noteworthy regular features are its film forums, its review essays, its book-length special issues, and the longest and most eclectic lists of books received of any journal in the field.