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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Werner Hüllen (, Professor Emeritus at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.896kg ISBN: 9780199254729ISBN 10: 0199254729 Pages: 450 Publication Date: 27 November 2003 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: Introduction 2: Peter Mark Roget and his ideas 3: Words, words, words 4: Synonymy: examples of early statements and practices 5: The beginnings of practical synonymy 6: The emergence of the English synonym dictionary 7: The topical tradition on English lexicography 8: Roget's Thesaurus: a topical dictionary of synonyms Bibliography Appendix IndexReviewsa book packed with new and fascinating information and analyses. Jane Roberts, International Journal of Lexicography ... will interest mainly historians of lexicography and linguistic thought, who will undoubtedly find it informative and useful. Times Higher Education Supplement ...of interest to linguistic historiographers as well as semanticists and lexicographers...Hullen makes a thoughtful and well-documented case for the importance of Roget's Thesaurus in the subfield of semantics and the history of English linguistics in general. The Year's Work in English Studies Author InformationWerner Hüllen is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has published widely on the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. His most recent interest is the history of linguistics, particularly lexicography. On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Professor Hüllen was awarded a two-volume Festschrift, Perspectives on Language in Performance, edited by Wolfgang Lörscher and Rainer Schulze, (Tübingen 1987). On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the members of the Oxford based Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, whose president he was between 1992 and 2002, honoured him with a reprint of Collected Papers on the History of Linguistic Ideas, edited by Michael M. Isermann (Münster 2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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