The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
110717886X
ISBN-13
9781107178861
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 22nd, 2019
Print length
972 Pages
Weight
1,672 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.40 x 5.10 cms
Product Classification:
LexicographyLiterary reference works
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This volume delivers the first comprehensive history of all the dictionaries which have been made across the world in the last five thousand years. Leading scholars provide insight into the dictionaries of hundreds of languages, and into the imaginative worlds of those who used or observed them.
A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and the Greco-Roman world, to the contemporary speech communities of every inhabited continent. Their makers included poets and soldiers, saints and courtiers, a scribe in an ancient Egyptian ''house of life'' and a Vietnamese queen. Their physical forms include Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts and the dictionary apps which are supporting endangered Australian languages. Through engaging and accessible studies, a diverse team of leading scholars provide fascinating insight into the dictionaries of hundreds of languages, into the imaginative worlds of those who used or observed them, and into a dazzling variety of the literate cultures of humankind.
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