The Oxford History of English Lexicography

Name: The Oxford History of English Lexicography
Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
SKU: 9780199285624
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Includes bibliographical references and index.;Vol. 1. General-purpose dictionaries -- Vol. 2. Specialized dictionaries.

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The most comprehensive account of the history of English lexicography ever published.

Biographical Note:
A. P. Cowie is Honorary Reader in Lexicography at the University of Leeds. He was co-editor of the third edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and chief editor of the fourth edition. He is the co-editor of the Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms and was editor of the International Journal of Lexicography from 1998 to 2003. His books include English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History (OUP, 1999) and, as editor, Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications (OUP, 1998). He is currently preparing the second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms by A. P. Cowie, R. Mackin, and I. R. McCaig.

Table of Contents:
Volume I: General-purpose Dictionaries1. Introduction, A. P. Cowie Part I. Early Glossaries; Bilingual, and Multilingual Dictionaries2. Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period, Hans Sauer3. Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century, Janet Bately4. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries, Monique Cormier5. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Carla Marello6. Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Donna Farina and George Durman Part 2. The History of English Monolingual Dictionaries7. The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary Seventeenth and Early Eighteenthth Centuries, Noel Osselton8. Johnson and Richardson, Allen Reddick9. Major American Dictionaries, Sidney Landau10. The Oxford English Dictionary, Lynda Mugglestone11. The OED Supplements, Charlotte Brewer12. National and Regional Dictionaries of English, Richard Bailey13. Dictionaries of Scots, Margaret Dareau and Iseabail Macleod14. The Period Dictionaries, Michael Adams15. Dictionaries of Caribbean English, Jeannette Allsopp16. The Electronic OED: the computerization of a historical dictionary, Edmund WeinerReferencesIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects Volume II: Specialized Dictionaries Part 1. Dictionaries Specialized According to Ordering of Entries, Topical or Linguistic Content, or Speech Community1. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri, Werner Hüllen2. Scientific and Technical Dictionaries, Michael Hoare3. Dictionaries of Place-names, Carole Hough4. Dictionaries of Personal Names, Patrick Hanks5. Pronouncing Dictionaries - i Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Joan Beal6. Pronouncing Dictionaries - ii Mid to Late-Nineteenth Century, Beverley Collins and Inger Mees7. Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries, Thomas Herbst and Michael Klotz8. Dictionaries of Quotations, Elizabeth Knowles9. English Etymological Dictionaries, Anatoly Liberman10. Dialect Dictionaries, Robert Penhallurick11. Slang and Cant Dictionaries, Julie Coleman Part 2. Dictionaries Specialized According to Uses and Users12. Dictionaries of Usage, Robert Allen13. The American Collegiate Dictionaries, Sidney Landau14. The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries, A. P. Cowie15. Linguistic Research and Learner's Dictionaries: The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Thierry Fontenelle16. The Cobuild Project, Rosamund Moon17. Dictionaries in Electronic Form, Hilary NesiReferencesIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects

Review Quotes:
"Cowie's authors remind us of the power of correctly used language in communication." --W.F. Bynum, Nature

"This work's high quality and long-lasting subject matter make it a necessary purchase for libraries specializing in research, linguistics, and lexicography."-- Library Journal

"The best reference history I've read in a long time, and I feel confident in saying that if you love dictionaries, you will want to set some time aside for reading it." --Stephen Dodson

Publisher Marketing:
These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography.

Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED.

The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English.

The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.

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