When Robert Cawdrey printed the first edition of his highly successful Table Alphabeticall (1604), his main focus was on terms that were “hard and borrowed", which he proposed to expound with the help of “plaine English words". While Cawdrey’s interests were mainly educational, it is possible to argue that his linguistic ideology was protectionist rather than expansive, in line with the positions of sixteenth-century purists and archaizers. In this article, Cawdrey’s paratextual apparatus and his lexical items are sifted for evidence of the lexicographer’s affinity with such key anti-neologizing figures as Thomas Wilson and John Cheke.
'Proper vnto the tongue wherein we speake': Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall and the Archaizers
morini massimiliano
2020
Abstract
When Robert Cawdrey printed the first edition of his highly successful Table Alphabeticall (1604), his main focus was on terms that were “hard and borrowed", which he proposed to expound with the help of “plaine English words". While Cawdrey’s interests were mainly educational, it is possible to argue that his linguistic ideology was protectionist rather than expansive, in line with the positions of sixteenth-century purists and archaizers. In this article, Cawdrey’s paratextual apparatus and his lexical items are sifted for evidence of the lexicographer’s affinity with such key anti-neologizing figures as Thomas Wilson and John Cheke.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
