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The lexicography of English : from origins to present / Henri Béjoint.
Author
Béjoint, Henri
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description
xxiv, 458 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PE1611 .B45 2010
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Lexicography
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Summary note
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 Bǰoint 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.--From publisher description.
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"An earlier and much shorter version of this book was published by Oxford University Press in 1994 as Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries and reissued in paperback in 2000 as Modern Lexicography: An Introduction" -- verso t.p.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-441) and index.
Contents
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?
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ISBN
9780198299677 ((hardcover))
0198299672 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2010278542
OCLC
437305844
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