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Zusatztext magisterial review of the lexicography of English...Henri Béjoint has produced a scholarly account of English lexicography that ranges broadly across the field. Dictionaries are "mouthpieces of a culture"; Béjoint shows how we have codified our culture in our dictionaries. Informationen zum Autor Henri Béjoint is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon. In 1997-8 he was President of the European Association for Lexicography. He has published extensively on lexicography in French and English, including Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries (OUP 1994) and, with Richard Wakely, French Usage (OUP 1996). With Phillippe Thoiron he is co-editor of Les Dictionnaires Bilingues (Duculot 1996) and Le Sens en terminologie (Presses Universitaires de Lyon 2000) and, with François Maniez, of De la mesure dans les termes (Presses Universitaires de Lyon 2005). Klappentext This book looks at English dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA from 1600 to today. It is both a definitive history of the lexicography of English and a complete introduction to the making of dictionaries. Wide-ranging, wittily written, and authoritative it will appeal to everyone interested in dictionaries, English, and language. Zusammenfassung This book looks at English dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA from 1600 to today. It is both a definitive history of the lexicography of English and a complete introduction to the making of dictionaries. Wide-ranging, wittily written, and authoritative it will appeal to everyone interested in dictionaries, English, and language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Dictionaries and The Dictionary 2: A Brief History of English Dictionaries 3: The British Tradition of the Scholarly Dictionary 4: The American Tradition of the Utility Dictionary 5: A New Tradition: the Dictionary for Foreign Students 6: English Dictionaries of the Twentieth Century: the Cultural, the Functional, and the Scientific 7: The Study of Dictionary Users and Uses 8: Lexicography and Linguistics 9: Computers and Corpora in Lexicography 10: A Theory of Lexicography? Conclusion Bibliography 1 Dictionaries 2 Other Works Index ...
