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 8 November 2001
- ISBN 9780199251957
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 235x155x17 mm
- Weight 434 g
- Language English 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 Making use of much unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt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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The authors of this book draw on previously unpublished archive material to explore the pioneering endeavours of the scholars who conceived the Oxford English Dictionary and, with the assistance of an army of correspondents, brought it into being after half a century of Herculean labour. Its first publication in 1928 as the twelve-volume A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles was an important cultural event. In lexicographical and linguistic terms it was a revolution.
Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the dictionary constituted an emphatic return to first principles, in terms of the evidence by which the record of the language was constructed and in the nature of the work itself. The prescriptive policy of earlier dictionaries was replaced by empirical description, while new scientific principles of philology were deployed to advance the understanding of the meaning and function of language.
Lexicography and the OED provides new perspectives on the principles of the work and on the people, readers as well as editors, who created it. It includes chapters on its early history; the sources that were read for it; the nature of Englishness and the concept of the 'alien'; questions of inclusiveness and correctness; the standards of usage which the dictionary came to record; the treatment of early English and of science; the representation of pronunciation; the fundamental issues of word-formation; and the at times intractable problems of meaning. The book also sets the dictionary in the context of international lexicography, and examines how it was received by scholars and by the public.
This is the most wide-ranging account yet published of the creation of one of the great canonical works of the twentieth century.
...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 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
