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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gabriele Stein (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Heidelberg)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.542kg ISBN: 9780198807377ISBN 10: 0198807376 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 28 September 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , 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 ContentsIntroduction 1: Typography in sixteenth-century English dictionaries 2: Claudius Hollyband: The author behind the lexicographer 3: On the sources of Huloets Dictionarie (1572) 4: Early polyglot word lists: Investigating their relationship 5: Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator reconsidered 6: John Palsgrave as a sixteenth-century contrastive linguist 7: John Palsgrave's description of French word-formation 8: Peter Levins' description of word-formation (1570) References IndexReviewsGabriele Stein's Word Studies in the Renaissance sheds light on the kinds of reference works to which translators might have turned, and presents a series of analyses of Tudor lexicography...While corralling a potentially daunting level of detail for non-specialists, Stein's volume thus offers a valuable window onto another facet of historically contingent intellectual exchange. * Harriet Archer, The English Association * Author InformationGabriele Stein was Professor of English Language at the University of Heidelberg until 2006, and since then has been at University College London as a Research Associate of the English Department. She was President of the European Association for Lexicography from 1983-1986, and since 1999 has been a member of the Academia Europaea. Her publications include John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist (OUP 1997), Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (OUP 2014), A Usage Dictionary English-German & German-English (de Gruyter 2013), and, co-authored with Randolph Quirk, English in Use (Longman 1990) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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