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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.
This comprehensive account of the history of Chinese lexicography
is the first book on the subject to be published in English. It
traces the development of Chinese lexicography over three
millennia, from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-256 BC) to the Qing
Dynasty (1616-1911). Revealing how the emergence of lexicographical
culture in ancient China was linked to the teaching of ancient
characters, it describes the subsequent development of primers,
thesauruses, and dictionaries of all major types, including those
of dialects and technical terms. These works originated and
appeared in ancient China, predating their western counterparts by
hundreds of years: and in one form or another most of them remain
in use today.
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