Lexicography and the OED : Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology
ISBN-10
0198237847
ISBN-13
9780198237846
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 17th, 2000
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
583 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.20 x 2.20 cms
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DictionariesLexicographyHistory of ideas
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Explores the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology. Making use of archive material, this collection of twelve essays brings a variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break ground in its formation.
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 Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the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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