Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 February 2000
- ISBN 9780198237846
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 241x162x22 mm
- Weight 583 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white figures, 2 tables 0
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Short description:
The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. Lexicography and the OED sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.
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Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of the first English dictionary published by Oxford.
Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the first OED, as James Murray stressed, was to be founded on an unequivocal return to first principles, both in the nature of its construction and in the evidence amassed for its compilation. It also produced, as this book shows, a host of problems: on the nature of Englishness, correctness, and general standards of language use, as well as in aspects of pronunciation, semantics, and syntax. Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the particular problems posed by the attempt to realize the pioneering acts of lexicography integral to the making of the dictionary.
...this collection gives some fascinating insights into the making of the OED and is an essential reading for lexicographers and students of English (historical) linguistics.
Table of Contents:
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
The New English Dictionary
Making the OED
Readers and Editors: A Critical Survey
OED Sources
Murray and his European Counterparts
Time and Meaning
Sense and Definition in the OED
The Compass of the Vocabulary
Words and Word-Formation
Morphology in the OED
OED and the Earlier History of English
The Vocabulary of Science in the OED
Pronunciation in the OED
An Historian not a Critic
The Standard of Usage in the OED
This Unique and Peerless Specimen
The Reputation of the OED
Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts
Appendix 2. OED Personalia
Appendix 3. The OED and the Public
