Javier Ruano-García
List of John Benjamins publications for which Javier Ruano-García plays a role.
2018 Chapter 8. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 183–200 | Chapter
This paper examines the British English dialect material behind the compilation of John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms. It focuses on evidence furnished by six historical dialect glossaries and dictionaries quoted by Bartlett, which include John Ray’s A collection of English words… read more
2015 Northern Ascriptions in MS Lansdowne 1033: George Hickes’s Dictionariolum Islandicum in Focus Historiographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 21–38 | Article
This paper examines the contribution of the Dictionariolum Islandicum to White Kennett’s (1660–1728) unpublished Etymological Collections of English Words and Provincial Expressions (BL MS Lansdowne 1033). An expanded version of Franciscus Junius’s (1591–1677) Icelandic wordlist (Bodl. MS Junius… read more
2015 “Provincial in England, but in common use with us”: John R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms and the English Dialect Dictionary Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 99–116 | Article
This study explores the reception of American words in Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905). As agreed with the American Dialect Society in the late 1890s, Wright’s dictionary built upon a number of American sources that include dialectalisms likewise found on the other side of… read more
2015 Northern English: Historical lexis and spelling Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 131–158 | Article
This chapter looks at Northern English lexis and spelling through the evidence provided by literary representations of the North written between 1500–1700 and 1800–1900. It provides a diachronic overview of the lexical and spelling information given by a group of texts included in the Salamanca… read more
2013 “A Wiltshire word, according to Kennett”: The contribution of MS Lansd. 1033 to Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847) Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 81–98 | Article
This paper aims to cast light upon the making of Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847) focusing on some of the regional material contained in it. In particular, the paper examines the contribution of White Kennett’s unpublished Etymological Collections of English Words and… read more
2012 Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright’s sources: White Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities (1695) and the English Dialect Dictionary Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 241–256 | Article
This paper builds on previous research into the making of the English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905): Thompson (2008), Markus (2009) and Beal (2010), among others. It evaluates the contribution of Bishop White Kennett’s glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695) to Joseph Wright’s dictionary. By… read more