Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: Volume 4: The Seventeenth Century

Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: Volume 4: The Seventeenth Century
ISBN-10
1351870254
ISBN-13
9781351870252
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
655
Language
English
Published
2017-03-02
Publisher
Routledge
Author
John Considine

Description

Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.

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