Lynda Mugglestone (Pembroke Co Professor of the History of English

Broschiertes Buch

Dictionaries

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.

Autor

Lynda Mugglestone has written widely on a range of aspects of language, culture, and the history of dictionaries. While two books Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the OED Environmental economics ography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest (OUP, 2001; 2003) have focussed on the Oxford English Dictionary, a range of articles and chapters in other books have examined the history of lexicography outside this period, as well as the complex issues generated by taboo labelling, or the art of definition. Professor Mugglestone has also edited the Oxford History of English.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 113mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780199573790
• ISBN-10: 0199573794
• Artikelnr.: 33316058