The lexicography of English : from origins to present /
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,...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010
Oxford ; New York : 2010 |
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Table of 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?