Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-91852-5 (ISBN)
John Considine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta, Canada
Contents: Introduction; Part I Background: Lexicography in the early modern English period: the manuscript record, Ian Lancashire; Motives behind 17th century lexicography: a comparison between German and English dictionaries of that time, Werner Hüllen; The early modern English tradition of ’hard words’ and the Vindex anglicus (1644), Gerhard Graband; Defining English: authenticity and standardization in 17th-century dictionaries, Andrea R. Nagy; Dictionary English and the female tongue, Juliet Fleming. Part II Overview: The beginnings of English lexicography, Allen Walker Read; The beginning: English dictionaries of the first half of the 17th century, James A. Riddell. Part III Individual Dictionaries: What were Robert Cawdrey's hard words? Learned terms and A Table Alphabeticall (1604), R.W. McConchie; Women and the Godly art of rhetoric: Robert Cawdrey's Puritan dictionary, Sylvia Brown; The historical significance of Cockeram's treatment of verbs of high frequency, Kusujiro Miyoshi; The working methods of Thomas Blount, Jürgen Schäfer; Authenticating the vocabulary: a study in 17th-century lexicographical practice, N.E. Osselton; Thomas Dawks's The Complete English-Man (1685): a newly-discovered 17th-century dictionary?, Edwina Burness. Part IV Encyclopedic Historical and Specialized Dictionaries of English: Captain John Smith's Sea Grammar and its debt to Sir Henry Mainwaring's 'Seaman's Dictionary', P.L. Barbour; 'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the dialect protagonist, in the context of his times (1658-1691), Jo Gladstone; Theory meets empiricism: English Lexis in John Wilkins' philosophical language and the role of William Lloyd, Gabriele Knappe; A Physical Dictionary (1657): the first English medical dictionary, Jukka Tyrkkö. Part V Bilingual and Polyglot Dictionaries: The lexicography of the learned languages in 17th-century England, John Considine; Wordlists of exotic languages in 17th-century England, John Considine; The French-Engl
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
Gewicht | 1065 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-91852-7 / 1032918527 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-91852-5 / 9781032918525 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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