FROM INCIPIT TO ICONOPHOR

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Dictionary History
5. DU CANGE: LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE 1
6. CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY MS 0.5.4: A FIFTEENTHCENTURY PEDAGOGICAL DICTIONARY? 11
7. LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH PERIOD: THE MANUSCRIPT RECORD 19
8. AUTHOR’S LEXICOGRAPHY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARIES 31
9. AN ANALYSIS OF A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CONCEPTUAL DICTIONARY WITH AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENTRIES AND A NETWORK DEFINITION STRUCTURE: JOHN WILKINS’ AND WILLIAM LLOYD’S AN ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY ( 1668) 39
10. TEXT AND MEANING IN RICHARDSON’S DICTIONARY 53
11. AN AUTODIDACT’S LEXICON: THOMAS SPENCE'S GRAND REPOSITORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1775) 63
12. THE THIRD EDITION OF GROSE’S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE: BOOKSELLER’S HACKWORK OR POSTHUMOUS MASTERPIECE? 71
13. ROGET’S THESAURUS, DECONSTRUCTED 83
14. FROM INCIPIT TO ICONOPHOR 95
15. THE HISTORY OF A MULTI-DIALECTAL CATALAN DICTIONARY: THE DICCIONARI CATALA-VALENCIA-BALEAR 109
16. CULTURE AND THE DICTIONARY: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIRST EUROPEAN LEXICOGRAPHICAL WORK IN CHINA 119
17. Historical Dictionaries
18. POLYSEMY AND THE DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH 137
19. ASPECTS OF POLYSEMY IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY 149
20. POLYSEMY AND SYNONYMY AND HOW THESE CONCEPTS WERE UNDERSTOOD FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ONWARDS IN TREATISES, AND APPLIED IN DICTIONARIES OF ENGLISH 157
21. CULINARY EXCHANGES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ETYMOLOGIES OF SOME LOANWORDS IN THE THIRD EDITION OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY 185
22. CITATIONS IN THE WOORDENBOEK DER NEDERLANDSCHE ΤAAL 201
23. ORDERING A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY: THE EXAMPLE OF SHAKESPEARE'S INFORMAL ENGLISH 213
24. Index 223