Lexicography and the Oed

Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-823784-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

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 Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mugglestone, Lynda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Mehrsprachige Wörterbücher
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Lynda Mugglestone: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest

- The New English Dictionary

- 2: Elizabeth Knowles: Making the OED

- Readers and Editors: A Critical Survey

- 3: Charlotte Brewer: OED Sources

- 4: Noel Osselton: Murray and his European Counterparts

- 5: Penny Silva: Time and Meaning

- Sense and Definition in the OED

- 6: Anne Curzan: The Compass of the Vocabulary

- 7: Dieter Kastovsky: Words and Word-Formation

- Morphology in the OED

- 8: Eric Stanley: OED and the Earlier History of English

- 9: Michael Rand Hoare and Vivian Salmon: The Vocabulary of Science in the OED

- 10: Michael K. C. MacMahon: Pronunciation in the OED

- 11: Lynda Mugglestone: An Historian not a Critic

- The Standard of Usage in the OED

- 12: Richard W. Bailey: This Unique and Peerless Specimen

- The Reputation of the OED

- Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts

- Appendix 2. OED Personalia

- Appendix 3. The OED and the Public

Über Autor(innen)

Lynda Mugglestone is Fellow in English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, and News International Lecturer in Language and Communication. She has written widely on nineteenth-century language and associated issues–literary and linguistic, as well as lexicographic.