Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest [Hardcover]

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Hardcover: 298 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Feb 1 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198237847
ISBN-13: 978-0198237846
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 603 g

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`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

`In documenting the history of the debates associated with the OED, the volume thus provides a rich history of ideas about language in the period, with the added twist that the OED was itself an agent for change, a force moulding contemporary values and attitudes' The Review of English Studies

`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, THES

`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, THES

`This book serves as a timely reminder of the pioneering work characteristic of the first edition' Richard Boyle, THES

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Lexicography 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 Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the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.

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