Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: Volume 3: The Sixteenth Century

Author:   Roderick McConchie ,  Professor Ian Lancashire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780754656920


Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 July 2012
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Author:   Roderick McConchie ,  Professor Ian Lancashire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   1.156kg
ISBN:  

9780754656920


ISBN 10:   0754656926
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Contents: Introduction; Part I General: Narrative and persuasion in early modern dictionaries and phrasebooks, John Considine; 'Dumb significants' and early modern English definition, Ian Lancashire; Doctors and dictionaries in 16th-century England, Roderick McConchie; English specialized lexicography in the late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Noel Edward Osselton; Bilingual dictionaries in Shakespeare's day, D.T. Starnes; The emerging role of English in the dictionaries of Renaissance Europe, Gabriele Stein; A footnote on the inkhorn controversy, James Sledd; Language helps for the Elizabethan tradesman, Louis B. Wright. Part II Latin-English: Definitions and first person pronoun involvement in Thomas Elyot's Dictionary, Gabriele Stein; The English of the 'Nomenclator', William A. Craigie; A note on 16th-century vernacular English, Don Cameron Allen; Thomas Thomas makes a dictionary, Allan Stevenson. Part III English-Latin: Richard Huloet as a recorder of the English lexicon, Gabriele Stein; Women and their world in Withal's Dictionary of 1553, Werner Hüllen; A note on the use of Renaissance dictionaries, James Sledd; John Baret's 'diligent bees', H. Rocke Robertson and Philip M. Teigen; Peter Levins' lexicographic approach, Roberta Facchinetti; The 'hard words' of Levins' dictionary, Maurizio Gotti. Part IV Familiar Vernacular: Law and early modern English lexicons, Ian Lancashire; Bilingual lexicography in the Renaissance: Palsgrave's English-French lexicon (1530), Douglas A. Kibbee; William Thomas: a forgotten clerk of the Privy Council, E.R. Adair; Claudius Hollyband and the earliest French-English dictionaries, Mark Eccles; Negotiating Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, David O. Frantz. Part V Unfamiliar Vernacular: The earliest list of Russian Lapp words, John Abercromby; Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English origins of Algonkian linguistics, Vivian Salmon; Mark Ridley (1560-1624): an Elizabethan Slavist, Gerald Stone; Russian medical terminology in Mark Ridley's dictionary, Vera Fedorovna Konnova; The achievement of William Salesbury, Glanmor Williams; Index.

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Roderick McConchie is Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland John Considine, Ian Lancashire, Roderick McConchie, Noel Edward Osselton, D.T. Starnes, Gabriele Stein, James Sledd, Louis B. Wright, William A. Craigie, Don Cameron Allen, Allan Stevenson, Werner Hullen, James Sledd, H. Rocke Robertson, Philip M. Teigen, Roberta Facchinetti, Maurizio Gotti, Douglas A. Kibbee, E.R. Adair, Mark Eccles, David O. Frantz, John Abercromby, Vivian Salmon, Gerald Stone, Vera Federovna Konnova, Glanmor Williams.

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