Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of the first English dictionary published by Oxford.
Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the first OED, as James Murray stressed, was to be founded on an unequivocal return to first principles, both in the nature of its construction and in the evidence amassed for its compilation. It also produced, as this book shows, a host of problems: on the nature of Englishness, correctness, and general standards of language use, as well as in aspects of pronunciation, semantics, and syntax. Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the particular problems posed by the attempt to realize the pioneering acts of lexicography integral to the making of the dictionary.
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...this collection gives some fascinating insights into the making of the OED and is an essential reading for lexicographers and students of English (historical) linguistics. * Marcus Callies, eLanguage * An excellently integrated and fascinating collection of essays dealing with aspects of the compilation of the OED. * Years Work in English Studies * Dr Mugglestone is to be congratulated on bringing together an international team of experts and producing such a coherent volume of consistent excellence ... Penny Silva's fine essay, 'Time and Meaning: Sense and Definition in the OED', may be taken as representative. This chapter should be required reading for every dictionary editor. * Notes and Queries * This carefully edited and printed collection will be an invaluable work of reference for lexicophiles. * International Journal of Lexicography * This is a rich and scholarly volume, based on hitherto unexploited documentary resources relating to the OED. It not only gives unusually fresh glimpses into the early history of this work, but also sets out an agenda of issues relevant to anyone concerned with dictionaries and dictionary-making. * The Review of English Studies * This study is an essential acquisition for lexicographers, language scholars and researchers. Indeed, anyone with a passion for the English language and a basic knowledge of the history of the OED will find much of interest within these pages. * Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement * Lexicography and the OED justifiably claims to be 'the most wide-ranging account yet published of the creation of one of the great canonical works of the 20th century. * Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement *
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-19-823784-6 (9780198237846)
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Lynda Mugglestone is Fellow in English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, and News International Lecturer in Language and Communication. She has written widely on nineteenth-century language and associated issues-literary and linguistic, as well as lexicographic.
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, Professor of the History of English, University of Oxford
1. Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest ; 2. Making the OED ; 3. OED Sources ; 4. Murray and his European Counterparts ; 5. Time and Meaning ; 6. The Compass of the Vocabulary ; 7. Words and Word-Formation ; 8. OED and the Earlier History of English ; 9. The Vocabulary of Science in the OED ; 10. Pronunciation in the OED ; 11. An Historian not a Critic ; 12. This Unique and Peerless Specimen ; Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts ; Appendix 2. OED Personalia ; Appendix 3. The OED and the Public
