The Lexicography of English
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 March 2010
- ISBN 9780198299677
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages516 pages
- Size 253x177x32 mm
- Weight 1084 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp plates 0
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Short description:
This book looks at English dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA from 1600 to today. It is both a definitive history of the lexicography of English and a complete introduction to the making of dictionaries. Wide-ranging, wittily written, and authoritative it will appeal to everyone interested in dictionaries, English, and language.
MoreLong description:
This book looks at how English words have been recorded, ordered, dissected, and displayed in dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA from the seventeenth century to the present. In the process it offers a complete introduction to how dictionaries are made. It considers the aims of their authors, the methods of their compilation, and the concepts and beliefs that lie behind them.
Henri Béjoint compares the descriptive approach of English lexicography with its more prescriptive American counterpart, and contrasts both with the lexicography of France. Computers have transformed the way dictionaries are produced and presented. Yet, as the author shows, many aspects of lexicography have hardly changed over the centuries: the challenge of distinguishing a word's senses, for example, and of tracing the history of its forms and uses. Problems equally remain: how to treat taboo-words and insults is as difficult as it ever was and the nature of meaning is subject still to fierce debate.
The history of lexicography is characterized by the ambitions and achievements of great eccentrics and yet greater intellects. Johnson, Webster, and Murray stalk these pages with a host of scholars and enterpreneurs: Professor Béjoint vividly documents their lives and deftly takes apart their work. "Dictionaries are an endless source of enjoyment," he writes, "and perhaps the most important object of this book is to try to persuade the reader that lexicography is a fascinating domain."
He triumphantly succeeds.
This well-written book is a treasure-house of information .. . an eminently readable book. A set of illustrations (samples of dictionary pages) enhances its value, as do a copious bibliography and indexes.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Dictionaries and The Dictionary
A Brief History of English Dictionaries
The British Tradition of the Scholarly Dictionary
The American Tradition of the Utility Dictionary
A New Tradition: the Dictionary for Foreign Students
English Dictionaries of the Twentieth Century: the Cultural, the Functional, and the Scientific
The Study of Dictionary Users and Uses
Lexicography and Linguistics
Computers and Corpora in Lexicography
A Theory of Lexicography?
Conclusion
Bibliography
1 Dictionaries
2 Other Works
Index
