The Cambridge companion to English dictionaries:

"Dictionaries and lexicography (the art and craft of dictionary-making) have existed as long as humans have been writing. When one considers that the first dictionaries were carved into clay tablets by Sumerians over 4000 years ago, then the first monolingual English dictionary, which appeared...

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Other Authors: Ogilvie, Sarah 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2020
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
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Summary:"Dictionaries and lexicography (the art and craft of dictionary-making) have existed as long as humans have been writing. When one considers that the first dictionaries were carved into clay tablets by Sumerians over 4000 years ago, then the first monolingual English dictionary, which appeared in 1604, could be considered positively 'recent'. However, the four centuries since then present a fascinating story of evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. Dictionaries are the kinds of books that are always 'just there'. Alongside religious texts they have acquired, throughout history, a sense of sacredness and authority. There are reasons for this, and this volume traces how this became so. How did a single genre of text have the power to standardize the English language across time and region, to rival the Bible in notions of authority, and to challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description?"--
Item Description:Index Seite 342-345
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 345 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9781108553780
DOI:10.1017/9781108553780

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