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Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791.
Title:
Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791.
Author:
Hayashi, Tetsuro.
ISBN:
9789027281319
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (180 pages)
Series:
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; v.18

Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
Contents:
THE THEORY OF ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY 1530 - 1791 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- 1.0 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF RENAISSANCE BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY -- 2.0 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE THEORY OF ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE JACOBEAN PERIOD -- 3.0 THE GROWTH OF ETYMOLOGICAL AND ENCYCLOPAEDIC PRINCIPLES IN THE NEOCLASSICAL AGE -- 4.0 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE THEORY OF COMPILING GENERAL STANDARD DICTIONARIES IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 5.0 ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY ON ORTHOEPIC PRINCIPLES IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 6.0 CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- A. PRIMARY SOURCES -- B. SECONDARY LITERATURE -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Abstract:
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process, Professor Hayashi focuses on issues of method and theory, starting with John Palsgrave's Lesclarissement de la langue francoyse (1530), to John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791). This book also includes a detailed discussion of Dr. Johnson's influential Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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