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Titolo |
The Oxford history of English lexicography . Volume 1 General purpose dictionaries / / edited by A.P. Cowie |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-05320-5 |
9786612053207 |
0-19-155807-9 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1057 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Lexicography - History |
Encyclopedias and dictionaries - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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