A Concise History of the Concise Oxford Dictionary

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A Concise History of the Concise Oxford Dictionary 1
5. Richelet's dictionnaire françois (1680) as a Source of LA PORTE DES SIENCES (1682) and Le Roux's DICTIONAIRE COMIQUE (1718) 13
6. The History of Pronunciation in English-Language Dictionaries 23
7. A Brief History of Chinese Bilingual Lexicography 35
8. How Abstract is the English Dictionary? 47
9. The Development of the Bilingual English-Arabic Dictionary from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Present 57
10. The Beginnings of Lexicography in Croatia 65
11. Afrikaans Lexicography 75
12. The duden rechtschreibung 1880-1986 85
13. Learned Lexicographers of the North 99
14. The Entry in Medieval Arabic Monolingual Dictionaries 107
15. The Paradigm of John Wilkins' Thesaurus 115
16. Lexicographic Archaeology 127
17. The Humanist Period in Renaissance Bilingual Lexicography 137
18. László Országh, the Lexicographer 147
19. Thematic Lexicography 157
20. Four Remarks on the Prehistory of Historical lexicography 167
21. The First English Dictionary? 175
22. The Development of the General Monolingual Dictionary in Poland 185
23. Competing lexicographical Traditions in America 197
24. The Bilingual Dictionary - Victim of its own tradition? 207
25. Sixteenth-Century English-Vernacular Dictionaries 219
26. The Three-Century Recension in Spanish and English Lexicography 229
27. Appendix A: Bibliography of Cited Dictionaries 241
28. Appendix B: Seminar Programme 258
29. Appendix C: List of Participants 259
30. List of Contributors 263