The History of Lexicography

Book

The History of Lexicography

Edited by: R.R.K. Hartmann

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1986

Published by

View more publications by John Benjamins Publishing Company

To Publisher Page

This book is in the series

Volume 40 | Studies in the History of the Language Sciences

About this book

Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most of the lexicographical traditions in the world, some tracing them right back to their beginnings. The programme was divided into eight sessions, with the following concentrations of topics: (1) three classical traditions, (2) the early history of European lexicography, (3) the beginnings of English lexicography, (4) further aspects of English lexicography, (5) the background of diverse national developments, (6) specific features of national developments, (7) pioneers of three genres, (8) recent trends in the English dictionary.

Reviews

John D. Gallagher, BDÜ Mitteilungsblatt, 1989.:
.... can be warmly recommended to anyone who is interested in academic lexicography or translation work.

Topics

Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A Concise History of the Concise Oxford Dictionary Robert Edward Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Richelet's dictionnaire françois (1680) as a Source of LA PORTE DES SIENCES (1682) and Le Roux's DICTIONAIRE COMIQUE (1718) Laurent Bray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
The History of Pronunciation in English-Language Dictionaries Arthur J. Bronstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
A Brief History of Chinese Bilingual Lexicography David Chien and Thomas Creamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
How Abstract is the English Dictionary? Fredric Dolezal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
The Development of the Bilingual English-Arabic Dictionary from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Nawal El-Badry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
The Beginnings of Lexicography in Croatia Rudolf Filipović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Afrikaans Lexicography Rufus H. Gouws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
The duden rechtschreibung 1880-1986 Development and Function of a Popular Dictionary Glyn Hatherall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Learned Lexicographers of the North Seventeenth-century vignettes Einar Haugen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
The Entry in Medieval Arabic Monolingual Dictionaries Some aspects of arrangement and content John A. Haywood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
The Paradigm of John Wilkins' Thesaurus Werner Hüllen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Lexicographic Archaeology Comparing dictionaries of the same family Robert F. Ilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
The Humanist Period in Renaissance Bilingual Lexicography Douglas A. Kibbee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
László Országh, the Lexicographer Tamas Magay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
Thematic Lexicography Tom McArthur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Four Remarks on the Prehistory of Historical lexicography Reuven Merkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
The First English Dictionary? A sixteenth-century compiler at work N.E. Osselton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
The Development of the General Monolingual Dictionary in Poland Tadeusz Piotrowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Competing lexicographical Traditions in America Allan Walker Read Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
The Bilingual Dictionary - Victim of its own tradition? Mary Snell-Hornby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Sixteenth-Century English-Vernacular Dictionaries Gabriele Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
The Three-Century Recension in Spanish and English Lexicography Roger J. Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Appendix A: Bibliography of Cited Dictionaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Appendix B: Seminar Programme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	258
Appendix C: List of Participants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

April 8, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9789027286345

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

265

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.40

eBook ISBN: 9789027286345

Keywords for this book

History of linguistics; Lexicography

Audience(s) for this book

Professional and scholarly;

The History of Lexicography

Overview

About this book

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Bibliographic data