1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793115303321

Titolo

Historical dictionaries in their paratextual context / / edited by Roderick McConchie and Jukka Tyrkkö

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-057296-6

3-11-057497-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)

Collana

Lexicographica. Series Maior ; ; Volume 153

Disciplina

413.028

Soggetti

Lexicography - History

English language - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / McConchie, Roderick / Tyrkkö, Jukka -- Reading Trench reading Richardson / Adams, Michael -- Did Anne Maxwell print John Wilkins's An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language (1668)? / Dolezal, Fredric T. / Risvold, Ward J. -- "As well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant" / Domínguez-Rodríguez, M. Victoria / Rodríguez-Álvarez, Alicia -- Printed English dictionaries in the National Library of Russia to the mid-seventeenth century / Frolova, Olga E. / McConchie, Roderick -- "A hundred visions and revisions": Malone's annotations to Johnson's Dictionary / Iamartino, Giovanni -- The use of "mechanical reasoning": John Quincy and his Lexicon physico-medicum (1719) / McConchie, Roderick -- Paratexts and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: 'content marketing' in the nineteenth century? / Ogilvie, Sarah -- The "wants" of women: Lexicography and pedagogy in seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury dictionaries* / Shapiro, Rebecca -- Claudius Hollyband: A lexicographer speaks his mind / Stein, Gabriele -- Subscribers and Patrons: Jacob Serenius and his Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum 1734 / Tiisala, Seija -- "Weak Shrube or Underwood": The unlikely medical glossator John Woodall and his glossary / Tyrkkö, Jukka -- A "florid" preface about "a language that is very short, concise and sententious" / Vişan, Ruxandra -- List of



contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Both dictionary and paratext research have emerged recently as widely-recognised research areas of intrinsic interest. This collection represents an attempt to place dictionaries within the paratextual context for the first time. This volume covers paratextual concerns, including dictionary production and use, questions concerning compilers, publishers, patrons and subscribers, and their cultural embedding generally. This book raises questions such as who compiled dictionaries and what cultural, linguistic and scientific notions drove this process. What influence did the professional interests, life experience, and social connexions of the lexicographer have? Who published dictionaries and why, and what do the forematter, backmatter, and supplements tell us? Lexicographers edited, adapted and improved earlier works, leaving copies with marginalia which illuminate working methods. Individual copies offer a history of ownership through marginalia, signatures, dates, places, and library stamps. Further questions concern how dictionaries were sold, who patronised them, subscribed to them, and how they came to various libraries.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788587703321

Autore

Panikkar K. M (Kavalam Madhava), <1896-1963, >

Titolo

The Afro-Asian states and their problems / / K. M. Panikkar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxfordshire, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

©1959

ISBN

1-136-85860-1

0-203-83574-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Development ; ; Volume 83

Disciplina

309.15

Soggetti

Newly independent states

Africa

Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I Political Structure; II The Problems of Administration; III The Problems of Economic Life; IV Education; V Science in the New States; VI The Social Problems of the New States; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This reissue of Sandar Panikkar's 1959 book is based upon a series of lectures given at the Institut d'Etude de Development Economique et Social, which spotlights the problems faced by the multitude of African and Asian states which achieved independence between 1945 and 1957. From Asia, the author discusses the plight of India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylon, Vietnam, Cambodia, laos, Syria and Lebanon whilst in Africa he assesses the independence of the Sudan, Tunisia, Morroco and Ghana. The problems faced by these countries have many similarities, not least the need to develop systems of