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Thu Apr 15 2010

Books: Lexicography: Bejoint

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        1.    Elyse Turr, The Lexicography of English: Bejoint
Message 1: The Lexicography of English: Bejoint
Date: 29-Mar-2010
From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com>
Subject: The Lexicography of English: Bejoint
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Title: The Lexicography of English Published: 2010 Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Henri Bejoint Hardback: ISBN: 0198299672 9780198299677 Pages: 544 Price: U.S. $ 55.00
Abstract:

This book looks at how English words have been recorded, ordered,dissected, and displayed in dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA fromthe seventeenth century to the present. In the process it offers a completeintroduction to how dictionaries are made. It considers the aims of theirauthors, the methods of their compilation, and the concepts and beliefsthat lie behind them.

Henri Béjoint compares the descriptive approach of English lexicographywith its more prescriptive American counterpart, and contrasts both withthe lexicography of France. Computers have transformed the way dictionariesare produced and presented. Yet, as the author shows, many aspects oflexicography have hardly changed over the centuries: the challenge ofdistinguishing a word's senses, for example, and of tracing the history ofits forms and uses. Problems equally remain: how to treat taboo-words andinsults is as difficult as it ever was and the nature of meaning is subjectstill to fierce debate.

The history of lexicography is characterized by the ambitions andachievements of great eccentrics and yet greater intellects. Johnson,Webster, and Murray stalk these pages with a host of scholars andentrepreneurs: Professor Béjoint vividly documents their lives and deftlytakes apart their work. "Dictionaries are an endless source of enjoyment,"he writes, "and perhaps the most important object of this book is to try topersuade the reader that lexicography is a fascinating domain."

He triumphantly succeeds.

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
Written In: English (eng )

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