The Oxford History of English Lexicography [[electronic resource] ] : General-Purpose Dictionaries / Specialized Dictionaries (Two-volume Set)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454341603321
• Autore: Cowie A. P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, UK, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-05320-5; 9786612053207; 0-19-155807-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1057 p.)
• Disciplina: 413.028
• Soggetti: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; English language -- Lexicography -- History; English language; English; English Language; Languages & Literatures; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Volume I; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; PART I: EARLY GLOSSARIES; BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES; 2. Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period; 3. Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century; 4. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 5. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 6. Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; PART II: THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES7. The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary (Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries); 8. Johnson and Richardson; 9. Major ; American Dictionaries; 10. The Oxford English Dictionary; 11. The OED Supplements; 12. National and Regional Dictionaries of English; 13. Dictionaries of Scots; 14. The Period Dictionaries; 15. Dictionaries of Caribbean English; 16. The Electronic OED: the Computerization of a Historical Dictionary; References; Dictionaries and related reference works; Other references; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; HK; M; O; P; R; S; U; Y; Z; Volume II; Contents of Volume II; Contents; Preface; Contents of Volume I; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO ORDERING OF ENTRIES, TOPICAL OR LINGUISTIC CONTENT, OR SPEECH COMMUNITY; 1. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri; 2. Scientific and Technical Dictionaries; 3. Dictionaries of Place-names; 4. Dictionaries of Personal Names; 5. Pronouncing Dictionaries-I Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 6. Pronouncing Dictionaries-II Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present Day7. Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries; 8. Dictionaries of Quotations; 9. English Etymological Dictionaries; 10. Dialect Dictionaries; 11. Slang and Cant Dictionaries; PART II: DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO USES AND USERS; 12. Dictionaries of Usage; 13. The American Collegiate Dictionaries; 14. The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries; 15. Linguistic Research and Learners' Dictionaries: the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English; 16. The Cobuild Project; 17. Dictionaries in Electronic Form; ReferencesDictionaries and related reference works; Other references; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; K; M; O; P; R; S; U; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: The fullest account ever published of the lexicography of English describes its history from medieval glosses to a high-tech industry and covers English in all its varieties, including American English. A unique reference uniting scholarship with readability. - ;These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English an