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OverviewLexicography 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 Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynda Mugglestone (, Professor of the History of English, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.583kg ISBN: 9780198237846ISBN 10: 0198237847 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 17 February 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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 Jenny McMorris: Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts Peter Gilliver: Appendix 2. OED Personalia Richard W. Bailey: Appendix 3. The OED and the PublicReviews...this collection gives some fascinating insights into the making of the OED and is an essential reading for lexicographers and students of English (historical) linguistics. Marcus Callies, eLanguage An excellently integrated and fascinating collection of essays dealing with aspects of the compilation of the OED. Years Work in English Studies Dr Mugglestone is to be congratulated on bringing together an international team of experts and producing such a coherent volume of consistent excellence ... Penny Silva's fine essay, 'Time and Meaning: Sense and Definition in the OED', may be taken as representative. This chapter should be required reading for every dictionary editor. Notes and Queries This carefully edited and printed collection will be an invaluable work of reference for lexicophiles. International Journal of Lexicography This is a rich and scholarly volume, based on hitherto unexploited documentary resources relating to the OED. It not only gives unusually fresh glimpses into the early history of this work, but also sets out an agenda of issues relevant to anyone concerned with dictionaries and dictionary-making. The Review of English Studies This study is an essential acquisition for lexicographers, language scholars and researchers. Indeed, anyone with a passion for the English language and a basic knowledge of the history of the OED will find much of interest within these pages. Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement 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. Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement An excellently integrated and fascinating collection of essays dealing with aspects of the compilation of the OED. Years Work in English Studies Dr Mugglestone is to be congratulated on bringing together an international team of experts and producing such a coherent volume of consistent excellence ... Penny Silva's fine essay, 'Time and Meaning: Sense and Definition in the OED', may be taken as representative. This chapter should be required reading for every dictionary editor. Notes and Queries This carefully edited and printed collection will be an invaluable work of reference for lexicophiles. International Journal of Lexicography This is a rich and scholarly volume, based on hitherto unexploited documentary resources relating to the OED. It not only gives unusually fresh glimpses into the early history of this work, but also sets out an agenda of issues relevant to anyone concerned with dictionaries and dictionary-making. The Review of English Studies This study is an essential acquisition for lexicographers, language scholars and researchers. Indeed, anyone with a passion for the English language and a basic knowledge of the history of the OED will find much of interest within these pages. Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement 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. Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement Author InformationLynda 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 issuesDSliterary and linguistic, as well as lexicographic. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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