The Oxford history of English lexicography. Volume 1, General purpose dictionaries

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The fullest account ever published of the lexicography of English describes its history from medieval glosses to a high-tech industry and covers English in all its varieties, including American English. A unique reference uniting scholarship with readability. - ;These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English an

Title The Oxford history of English lexicography. Volume 1, General purpose dictionaries / edited by A.P. Cowie.
Additional Titles History of English lexicography
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Oxford : Clarendon Press
New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Volume I
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
PART I: EARLY GLOSSARIES
BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES
2. Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period
3. Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century
4. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
5. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
6. Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
PART II: THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES7. The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary (Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries)
8. Johnson and Richardson
9. Major American Dictionaries
10. The Oxford English Dictionary
11. The OED Supplements
12. National and Regional Dictionaries of English
13. Dictionaries of Scots
14. The Period Dictionaries
15. Dictionaries of Caribbean English
16. The Electronic OED: the Computerization of a Historical Dictionary
References
Dictionaries and related reference works
Other references
Index
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Volume II
Contents of Volume II
Contents of Volume I
Introduction
PART I: DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO ORDERING OF ENTRIES, TOPICAL OR LINGUISTIC CONTENT, OR SPEECH COMMUNITY
1. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri
2. Scientific and Technical Dictionaries
3. Dictionaries of Place-names
4. Dictionaries of Personal Names
5. Pronouncing Dictionaries-I Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
6. Pronouncing Dictionaries-II Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present Day7. Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries
8. Dictionaries of Quotations
9. English Etymological Dictionaries
10. Dialect Dictionaries
11. Slang and Cant Dictionaries
PART II: DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO USES AND USERS
12. Dictionaries of Usage
13. The American Collegiate Dictionaries
14. The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries
15. Linguistic Research and Learners' Dictionaries: the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
16. The Cobuild Project
17. Dictionaries in Electronic Form
ReferencesDictionaries and related reference works
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Extent 1 online resource (1057 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010717102705171
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