The New World Of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing And Account Of The Original Or Proper Sense And Various Significations Of All Hard Words Derived From Other Languages
Download The New World Of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing And Account Of The Original Or Proper Sense And Various Significations Of All Hard Words Derived From Other Languages PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The New World Of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing And Account Of The Original Or Proper Sense And Various Significations Of All Hard Words Derived From Other Languages book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550-1820
In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The first half of the book focuses on these labels and on mercantile language more broadly; how it was used in trade and how lexicographers and others approached what, for them, were new vocabularies. In the second half, the author turns to the goods themselves, and their relationships with terms such as ’luxury’, ’choice’ and ’love’; terms that were used as descriptors in marketing goods. The language of objects is a subject of ongoing interest and the study of consumables opens up new ways of looking at the everyday language of the early modern period as well as the experiences of trade and consumption for both merchant and consumer.