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. |
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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 A B C D E F HK M O P R S U Y Z 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 H K |
Extent |
1 online resource (1057 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010717102705171 |
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