The sixteenth century in English lexicography formed a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110635782)
Taking discovery not in its modern sense of finding, but an older sense of revealing or disclosing, McConchie describes medical dictionaries and the people who assembled them during a period when medical knowledge was growing rapidly in both de...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110572865)
The study of English dictionaries in the past has tended to focus on the lexicographers, but here scholars of English look instead at what the features of a dictionary besides its text can reveal about the purposes of the lexicographer and publis...Loe edasi...
Laying the foundations for the first monolingual dictionaries of English, the sixteenth century in English lexicography is here shown to form a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more r...Loe edasi...
