LINGUIST List 13.3256

Wed Dec 11 2002

Books: Lexicography: Mugglestone (ed.)

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. bartonm, Lexicography and the OED: Mugglestone (ed.)

			
Title: Lexicography and the OED
Subtitle: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198237847.html

Editor: Lynda Mugglestone, Oxford University 

Hardback: ISBN: 0198237847, Pages: 304 pp, Price: $85.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199251959, Pages: 304 pp, Price: $29.95
			
Abstract:

The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history
of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out
to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and
lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of
much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of
perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed
by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.

"Timely . . . Mugglestone should be congratulated on bringing together
an international team of experts and producing such a coherent volume
of consistent excellence . . . should be required reading for every
dictionary editor."--Jeremy Smith, Notes and Queries, June 2002

Lingfield(s): Lexicography
			 
Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)