Title:
The lexicography of English : from origins to present / Henri Béjoint.
Modern lexicography.
Author:
Béjoint, Henri.
Béjoint, Henri. Modern lexicography.
General Notes:
"Shorter version of this book was published by Oxford University Press in 1994 as Tradition and innovation in modern English dictionaries and reissued in paperback in 2000 as Modern lexicography : an introduction."--T.p. verso., "Shorter version of this book was published by Oxford University Press in 1994 as Tradition and innovation in modern English dictionaries and reissued in paperback in 2000 as Modern lexicography : an introduction."--T.p. verso.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Place:
Oxford :
ISBN:
9780198299677 (hbk.)
Subject:
English language -- Lexicography -- History.
English language. -- Lexicography.
Lexicography.
Lexicographie.
Anglais(Langue) -- Lexicographie -- Histoire.
Anglais (Langue) -- Lexicographie.
Contents:
Dictionaries and the dictionary -- A brief history of English dictionaries -- The British tradition of the scholarly dictionary -- The American tradition of the utility dictionary -- A new tradition : the dictionary for foreign students -- English dictionaries of the twentieth century : the cultural, the functional, and the scientific -- The study of dictionary users and uses -- Lexicography and linguistics -- Computers and corpora in lexicography -- A theory of lexicography?.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 458 p., [32] p. of plates ;
Publication Date:
2010.
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