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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Considine , Professor Ian LancashirePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Weight: 1.338kg ISBN: 9780754656937ISBN 10: 0754656934 Pages: 578 Publication Date: 28 July 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Background: Lexicography in the early modern English period: the manuscript record, Ian Lancashire; Motives behind 17th century lexicography: a comparison between German and English dictionaries of that time, Werner Hüllen; The early modern English tradition of ’hard words’ and the Vindex anglicus (1644), Gerhard Graband; Defining English: authenticity and standardization in 17th-century dictionaries, Andrea R. Nagy; Dictionary English and the female tongue, Juliet Fleming. Part II Overview: The beginnings of English lexicography, Allen Walker Read; The beginning: English dictionaries of the first half of the 17th century, James A. Riddell. Part III Individual Dictionaries: What were Robert Cawdrey's hard words? Learned terms and A Table Alphabeticall (1604), R.W. McConchie; Women and the Godly art of rhetoric: Robert Cawdrey's Puritan dictionary, Sylvia Brown; The historical significance of Cockeram's treatment of verbs of high frequency, Kusujiro Miyoshi; The working methods of Thomas Blount, Jürgen Schäfer; Authenticating the vocabulary: a study in 17th-century lexicographical practice, N.E. Osselton; Thomas Dawks's The Complete English-Man (1685): a newly-discovered 17th-century dictionary?, Edwina Burness. Part IV Encyclopedic Historical and Specialized Dictionaries of English: Captain John Smith's Sea Grammar and its debt to Sir Henry Mainwaring's 'Seaman's Dictionary', P.L. Barbour; 'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the dialect protagonist, in the context of his times (1658-1691), Jo Gladstone; Theory meets empiricism: English Lexis in John Wilkins' philosophical language and the role of William Lloyd, Gabriele Knappe; A Physical Dictionary (1657): the first English medical dictionary, Jukka Tyrkkö. Part V Bilingual and Polyglot Dictionaries: The lexicography of the learned languages in 17th-century England, John Considine; Wordlists of exotic languages in 17th-century England, John Considine; The French-EnglReviewsAuthor InformationJohn Considine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta, Canada Ian Lancashire, Werner Hullen, Gerhard Graband, Andrea R. Nagy, Juliet Fleming, Allen Walker Read, James A. Riddell, R.W. McConchie, Sylvia Brown, Kusujiro Miyoshi, Jurgen Schafer, N.E. Osselton, Edwina Burness, P.L. Barbour, Jo Gladstone, Gabriele Knappe, Jukka Tyrkko, John Considine, Peter Rickard, James Stewart, Janet Bately, Inge Kabell, Hanne Lauridsen, Monique C. Cormier, Heberto Fernandez. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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