Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869)
Autor de Roget's International Thesaurus
Sobre El Autor
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Series
Obras de Peter Mark Roget
Roget's Thesaurus 11 copias
ROGET NEW THESAURUS II DELUXE 7 copias
Roget's treasury of words 7 copias
ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES New Edition Revised and Enblarged by Samuel Romilly Roget (1879) 2 copias
Naturlifvets märkvärdigaste företeelser inom vext- och djur-organismen, med hänseende till plan och… 2 copias
Roget's 21 st Thesaurus 1 copia
Thesaurus of Ernglish Words and Phrases -- Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and to… (1933) 1 copia
Roget's international thesaurus 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Roget, Peter Mark
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1779-01-18
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1869-09-12
- Lugar de sepultura
- Churchyard of Saint James, West Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Soho, London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- West Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- philologist
physician - Relaciones
- Romilly, Samuel (uncle)
Roget, Samuel Romilly (grandson)
Miembros
Debates
Help needed: Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (edited by George Davidson) en Book talk (octubre 2014)
Reseñas
Roget's International Thesaurus por C. O. Sylvester Mawson
-This is a rare book. It may be rare because there are few editions available, or it may be desirable to book collectors and sellers. However, when I say it is ""rare " I do so in the sense that it contains information which Roget compiled which is generally unavailable --especially Roget's display of the use of words in literature, in an Oxford Dictionary manner.
This has been my companion through long hours of writing growing up, and often substituted for a dictionary during long hours of reading. My mom trusted it in her high school and college years. It's a trusted book and has handled years of use well. Even now that it's convenient to use computers for everything reference oriented, I still occasionally keep away from screens and fall back on my old text companions like this book.
Had this Book Club Associates' edition forwarded to me soon after its publication in 1973 when I was living in Scandinavia, short on Markka & pretending to be a budding author. It was an invaluable tool - to find that ultimate keyword your mind has let slip - and has continued to be every year since then although my oeuvre remains perilously slim!
A Thesaurus's role is to complement, not replace the inestimable Dictionary: as R.A. Dutch states in the preface (1962), "It furnishes no labels for 'speech level', for what is scholarly, literary or vulgar, or archaic and obsolete" (and certainly this Edition along with me is bordering on that last vestige of practical usefulness that was my ambition and is now for youthful aspiring writers).… (más)
A Thesaurus's role is to complement, not replace the inestimable Dictionary: as R.A. Dutch states in the preface (1962), "It furnishes no labels for 'speech level', for what is scholarly, literary or vulgar, or archaic and obsolete" (and certainly this Edition along with me is bordering on that last vestige of practical usefulness that was my ambition and is now for youthful aspiring writers).… (más)
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