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A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces
the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest
roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both
sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It attempts to
break out of the limits of the dictionary-ontology paradigm and set
British English dictionary-making and research against a broader
background of socio-cultural observations, thus relating the
development of English lexicography to changes in English,
accomplishments in English linguistics, social and cultural
progress, and advances in science and technology. It unfolds a
vivid, coherent and complete picture of how English
dictionary-making develops from its archetype to the prescriptive,
the historical, the descriptive and finally to the cognitive model,
how it interrelates to the course of the development of a nation's
culture and the historical growth of its lexicographical culture,
as well as how English lexicography spreads from British English to
other major regional varieties through inheritance, innovation and
self-perfection. This volume will be of interest to students and
academics of English lexicography, English linguistics and world
English lexicography.
"National finance" is a new concept launched by the author in his
book National Finance A Chinese Perspective, a unique monograph
that differs from other financial publications dealing with general
topics in public finance. The monograph intends to provide a full,
well-developed and macro-level exposition of all major aspects of
finance from the perspective of the central government, with focus
laid on the most essential, immediate and intricate issues in
national financial development, which are the "hard nuts" that have
to be cracked on both central and regional levels and on the fronts
of both offshore and onshore finance. It attempts to cope with a
series of formidable challenges that a country, particularly its
top government officials, must take in developing finance: how
national finance should develop and overtake in the face of rising
financial industries, how it should respond to the influx of
AI+blockchain technologies, how a country guards against and copes
with systematic or regional financial risks with security, fluidity
and profitability serving as its cornerstones, how it can build up
and promote the new international financial system and governance
amid international financial powers around the world, and so on.
"National finance" is a new concept launched by the author in his
book National Finance A Chinese Perspective, a unique monograph
that differs from other financial publications dealing with general
topics in public finance. The monograph intends to provide a full,
well-developed and macro-level exposition of all major aspects of
finance from the perspective of the central government, with focus
laid on the most essential, immediate and intricate issues in
national financial development, which are the "hard nuts" that have
to be cracked on both central and regional levels and on the fronts
of both offshore and onshore finance. It attempts to cope with a
series of formidable challenges that a country, particularly its
top government officials, must take in developing finance: how
national finance should develop and overtake in the face of rising
financial industries, how it should respond to the influx of
AI+blockchain technologies, how a country guards against and copes
with systematic or regional financial risks with security, fluidity
and profitability serving as its cornerstones, how it can build up
and promote the new international financial system and governance
amid international financial powers around the world, and so on.
This book unfolds chronologically, comprehensively and coherently,
for the first time and under one cover, a spectacular landscape of
how lexicographies of core native-speaker varieties of English
(other than British English) originate and develop, directly or
indirectly, from their British roots to current shapes and
prosperity, tracing their evolutional links with and inheritance
from British (occasionally American) lexicographical tradition,
their interrelation to socio-cultural settings, as well as their
reformation and divergences through innovation and self-expansion.
This pioneering work gives special focus to many unknown aspects
and areas of world English lexicography and concludes with visions,
prospects and possible transformations of its development in the
21st century. It is the first attempt to go beyond the traditional
confines of ontological studies in the history of lexicography,
integrating sociolinguistic and lexicographical approaches and
setting the diachronic explorations of world English lexicography
against the broad background of socio-cultural observations. It is
the most updated and wide-ranging on the subject treated within a
unified framework of English dictionary paradigms going from its
archetype to the prescriptive, to the historical, to the
descriptive and to the cognitive model.
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