The History of Lexicography

1. Preface; 2. A Concise History of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (by Allen, Robert Edward); 3. Richelet's dictionnaire francois (1680) as a Source of LA PORTE DES SIENCES (1682) and Le Roux's DICTIONAIRE COMIQUE (1718) (by Bray, Laurent); 4. The History of Pronunciation in English-Language Dictionaries (by Bronstein, Arthur J.); 5. A Brief History of Chinese Bilingual Lexicography (by Chien, David); 6. How Abstract is the English Dictionary? (by Dolezal, Fredric); 7. The Development of the Bilingual English-Arabic Dictionary from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Present (by El-Badry, Nawal); 8. The Beginnings of Lexicography in Croatia (by Filipovic, Rudolf); 9. Afrikaans Lexicography (by Gouws, Rufus H.); 10. The duden rechtschreibung 1880-1986: Development and Function of a Popular Dictionary (by Hatherall, Glyn); 11. Learned Lexicographers of the North: Seventeenth-century vignettes (by Haugen, Einar); 12. The Entry in Medieval Arabic Monolingual Dictionaries: Some aspects of arrangement and content (by Haywood, John A.); 13. The Paradigm of John Wilkins' Thesaurus (by Hullen, Werner); 14. Lexicographic Archaeology: Comparing dictionaries of the same family (by Ilson, Robert F.); 15. The Humanist Period in Renaissance Bilingual Lexicography (by Kibbee, Douglas A.); 16. Laszlo Orszagh, the Lexicographer (by Magay, Tamas); 17. Thematic Lexicography (by McArthur, Tom); 18. Four Remarks on the Prehistory of Historical lexicography (by Merkin, Reuven); 19. The First English Dictionary?: A sixteenth-century compiler at work (by Osselton, N.E.); 20. The Development of the General Monolingual Dictionary in Poland (by Piotrowski, Tadeusz); 21. Competing lexicographical Traditions in America (by Read, Allan Walker); 22. The Bilingual Dictionary - Victim of its own tradition? (by Snell-Hornby, Mary); 23. Sixteenth-Century English-Vernacular Dictionaries (by Stein, Gabriele); 24. The Three-Century Recension in Spanish and English Lexicography (by Steiner, Roger J.); 25. Appendix A: Bibliography of Cited Dictionaries; 26. Appendix B: Seminar Programme; 27. Appendix C: List of Participants; 28. List of Contributors; 29. Illustrations/Tables; 30. Richelet as a source of la porte des siences (1682) and Le Roux's dictionaire comique (1718); 31. Title Page, opera nuova che insegna a parlare la lingua schiavonesca (1527); 32. Titles of the duden rechtschreibung (1880-1986); 33. Title Page, an alphabetical dictionary (Wilkins 1668); 34. Title Page, lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse palsgrave (1530)