Lexicography and Physicke
The Record of Sixteenth-Century English Medical Terminology
Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 September 1997
- ISBN 9780198236306
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages460 pages
- Size 224x146x30 mm
- Weight 695 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Medical practitioners of the sixteenth century had their own body of special terms, just like the doctors of this century. The author examines medical terminology used in a selection of thirteen medical works published between 1547 and 1612, and compares it with the treatment of these words in the OED and other dictionaries of today. This study reveals errors, omissions, and biases which raise questions for lexicographical tools in general. This is an authoritative account of a specialized vocabulary which will be of considerable influence on future studies of sixteenth-century English.
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Medical practitioners of the sixteenth century had their own body of special terms, just like the doctors of this century. McConchie examines medical terminology used in a selection of thirteen medical works published between 1547 and 1612, and compares it with treatment of these words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries of today, showing how well - or ill - the specialist terminology of sixteenth-century medical practitioners has been recorded. He compiles a corpus of new data from a selection of medical texts ranging from scholarly tomes to homely handbooks. The study of this corpus reveals errors, omissions, and biases which raise questions for lexicographical tools in general. Are existing dictionaries adequate in their investigation of Renaissance English? Has current understanding been more biased and more deficient than we thought? If so, how are we to redress the problem?
This book uses a specialist semantic domain to raise important issues for lexicographers, and historians of early modern English and medicine.
Lexicography and Physicke is to be recommended for its richly informative and absorbing analysis of the development of medical terminology in sixteenth-century vernacular usage. Of no less importance, however, is its clear awareness of the ever-widening scope and practical potential of work still to be done in the field.
