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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788433903321

Titolo

Adventuring in dictionaries [[electronic resource] ] : new studies in the history of lexicography / / edited by John Considine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

ISBN

1-283-14196-5

1-4438-2626-X

9786613141965

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ConsidineJohn (John P.)

Disciplina

413.028

Soggetti

Lexicography - History

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliogrpahical references (p. [310]-360) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day. The first five treat English and French lexicography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Heberto Fernandez and Monique Cormier discuss the outside matter of French-English bilingual dictionaries; Kusujiro Miyoshi re-assesses the influence of Robert Cawdrey; John Considine uncovers the biography of Henry C...