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Pictura & Nomenclatura. Zur Wissensvermittlung in Wort und Bild in der Sachgruppenlexikographie des 17. Jahrhundert

  • Peter O. Müller
Published/Copyright: December 14, 2010
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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
From the journal Volume 38 Issue 3

Abstract

Onomasiological dictionaries, in which the vocabulary is arranged primarily according to thematic groups, played a major role within early modern lexicography. They were used in particular as travel vocabularies in order to procure a useful stock of basic terms while abroad and also belonged to prevalent modes of teaching in the humanistic school system, especially in elementary instruction. During the second half of the 17th century a lasting change of knowledge transfer inside this type of dictionary occurred by including illustrations which permeate not only Johann Amos Comenius' Orbis sensualium pictus but also Johann Georg Seybold's Teutsch-Lateinisches Wörterbüchlein. Both works will be conceptually explicated against the background of traditional topical lexicography and it will be shown that in both works, which mark the starting point of the history of the pictorial dictionary in the German-speaking parts, different semantic purposes of illustrations correlates with distinct vocabulary-picture-relations.


Adresse des Verfassers: Prof. Dr. Peter O. Müller, Department Germanistik und Komparatistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstraße 1, D-91054 Erlangen. E-Mail:

Online erschienen: 2010-12-14
Erschienen im Druck: 2010-December
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