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Zusatztext Lexicography and the OED justifiably claims to be 'the most wide-ranging account yet published of the creation of one of the great canonical works of the 20th century. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation. Zusammenfassung 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 Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the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. 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 ...
