The First Century Of English Monolingual Lexicography

Author : Kusujiro Miyoshi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443893466

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The First Century of English Monolingual Lexicography by Kusujiro Miyoshi Pdf

This book deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702. The major scholarly reference works which individually treat early English dictionaries are De Witt Starnes and Gertrude Noyes’s English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604–1755 (1946) and The Oxford History of English Lexicography (2009) edited by A. P. Cowie. However, when we proceed with reading the dictionaries with primary attention to their provision of lexical information, an array of deficiencies in Starnes and Noyes’s account stands out. There are two main reasons for these deficiencies; one is the fact that Starnes and Noyes’s analyses of the dictionaries are mainly made in accordance with the contents of their title pages and introductory materials, and the other is that the two authorities are excessively conscious of the external history of the dictionaries they discuss. The method of investigation of the dictionaries in this book differs greatly from these previous studies. Through it, various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, come to be revealed, including not only an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases, but also the highly creative use of other dictionaries in one specific dictionary, as well as the previously unrecognized direct and indirect influence of one dictionary on others.

Author : Laura Pinnavaia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527524859

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Food and Drink Idioms in English by Laura Pinnavaia Pdf

Idioms carry an aura of mystery for all speakers, owing to the discrepancy between their literal and non-literal meanings. This book clears up some of these ambiguities, by examining a series of expressions that have derived from the most instinctive and essential of all human behaviour: eating and drinking. The quantity and quality of 276 food and drink idioms are explored, investigating two hundred and fifty years of English monolingual lexicography and forty years of usage as attested by contemporary linguistic corpora. The examination of these idioms’ syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, historical, social and cultural characteristics will foster in speakers a whole new approach to idiom comprehension and usage, and will constitute thought-provoking ground for further research in other idiom domains.

Author : Howard Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350181724

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography by Howard Jackson Pdf

A definitive guide to the long tradition of lexicography, this handbook is a rigorous and systematic overview of the field and its recent developments. Featuring key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning and developing research in the field, this one-volume reference provides both a survey of current research and more practical guidance for advanced study. Fully updated and revised to take account of recent developments, in particular innovations in digital technology and online lexicography, this second edition features: - 6 new chapters, covering metalexicography, lexicography for Asian languages, lexicography for endangered and minority languages, onomasiological lexicography, collaborative lexicography, and internet dictionaries - Thoroughly revised chapters on learner dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries and future directions, alongside a significantly updated third part on 'New Directions in Lexicography', accounting for innovations in digital lexicography - An expanded glossary of key terms and an updated annotated bibliography Identifying and describing the central concepts associated with lexicography and its main branches of study, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography demonstrates the direct influence of linguistics on the development of the field and is an essential resource for anyone interested in this area.

Author : John Considine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351870252

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers by John Considine Pdf

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.

Author : Heming Yong,Jing Peng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000429480

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A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography by Heming Yong,Jing Peng Pdf

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.

Author : Dora Faraci,Giovanni Iamartino,Lucilla Lopriore,Martina Nied Curcio,Serenella Zanotti
Publisher : Roma TrE-Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9791259772961

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When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less. Studies in honour of Stefania Nuccorini by Dora Faraci,Giovanni Iamartino,Lucilla Lopriore,Martina Nied Curcio,Serenella Zanotti Pdf

Il volume raccoglie una serie di quattordici saggi da parte di studiosi italiani e stranieri – colleghe e colleghi, allieve di un tempo, amici – che hanno inteso così onorare la figura personale e professionale di Stefania Nuccorini, Professore Onorario dell’Università di Roma Tre, e autorevole studiosa di lingua e linguistica inglese. I saggi esplorano ambiti di ricerca in cui si è distinta l’operosità scientifica di Stefania Nuccorini, definita “Master of Words” dalle colleghe e amiche di Roma Tre. In primis, passato, presente e futuro della lessicografia, con saggi sui glossari anglosassoni (Faraci), note d’uso nella storia della lessicografia inglese (Bejoint), learners’ dictionaries (Klotz) e e-lexicography (Pettini). Poi, studi di carattere lessicologico, con particolare riferimento alle collocazioni (Pinnavaia), agli anglicismi in italiano (Pulcini e Fiasco), ai verba dicendi in prospettiva comparativa e traduttiva inglese-italiano (Bruti), nonché all’uso di già nella traduzione audiovisiva dall’inglese (Pavesi e Zanotti). Di taglio didattico e transculturale sono due saggi su English as a Lingua Franca (Lopriore, Sperti) e un terzo sull’inglese come relay language (Nied Curcio). Completano la raccolta due saggi di carattere letterario e teatrale, relativi a Laurence Sterne (Ruggieri) e al Macbeth shakespeariano (Di Giovanni e Raffi), mentre si muove tra lingua e letteratura un saggio sulle pratiche stenografiche di Charles Dickens (Bowles). DOI: 10.13134/9rdp-3r87

Author : Michael Barkas
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668379756

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English lexicography through the ages. A case study based on four dictionary entries by Michael Barkas Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Bonn, course: English Words: Structure, History and Usage, language: English, abstract: The history of the English lexicography offers through its numerous works that have survived up to our days a great opportunity to observe not only the semantic development of words, but also their layout in a page, from their fonts' styles and sizes to the structure of their meanings and the later acquisition symbols and abbreviations. Online availability of historical dictionaries enables us to study comparatively and diachronically the curriculum vitae of words, through which we can reconstruct a morpho-semantic overview that links past with present usages and meanings including their semantic development (e.g. polysemy, shifted meanings etc.), spelling variations, etymological suggestions and other valuable pieces of information. In many cases, due to the scientific achievements and rapid changes that occur in the human societies, it is possible to observe how social and cultural changes may have been captured within a particular definition or an etymological explanation. The current study focuses on the analysis of four dictionary entries. How do the meanings of the selected words evolve semantically and what does each lexicographer offer to the reader as we approach modern times? Due to the restricted length available for this paper, the early seventeenth century has been set as starting point for this work; more precisely Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall (1604), a most well-known work regarded today as the first monolingual English dictionary. A total of ten important dictionaries up to the digital OED will be used. The aim is to demonstrate through a comparative approach what semantic changes have taken place throughout the definitions, what has survived or become obsolete over time and what is the semantic status of today's definitions within the selected headwords.

Author : Carolin Ostermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110424164

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Cognitive Lexicography by Carolin Ostermann Pdf

English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language.

Author : Thomas Matthew Vozar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198875963

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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century by Thomas Matthew Vozar Pdf

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the sublime, a concept that only took shape in the decades after his death with the advent of philosophical aesthetics. Such a narrative, however, fails to account for the fact that Milton is one of the first writers in English to refer to Longinus, the author traditionally associated with the Ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime. This book argues that Milton did have an idea of the sublime—one that came to him from Longinus but also from a larger classical tradition that offered a pre-aesthetic predecessor to the aesthetic concept of the sublime. Thomas Vozar shows that Longinus was better known in early modern England than has been previously appreciated; that various notions of sublimity beyond that of Longinus would have been available to Milton and his contemporaries; and that such notions of the sublime were integral to Milton's rhetorical, scientific, and theological imagination. Additional material relating to the early modern reception of Longinus is provided in the appendices, which contain the first bibliographical study of copies of Longinus in English private libraries to 1674 and an edition of a newly discovered seventeenth-century English translation of Longinus. Far from being anachronistic, Milton's "abstracted sublimities" touch on almost every aspect of his thought, from rhetoric to politics, from science to theology. Making substantive contributions to literary scholarship, classical reception studies, and the history of ideas, Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century returns the sublime to its proper place at the forefront of Milton criticism, re-evaluates the diffusion of Longinian texts and concepts in early modern Europe, and records a crucial missing chapter in the history of the sublime.

Author : Chiara Benati,Claudia Händl
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527540835

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From Glosses to Dictionaries by Chiara Benati,Claudia Händl Pdf

This book presents—through a series of nine high quality essays by international scholars—the beginnings of the lexicographic tradition and the appearance of the first mono- and multilingual dictionaries in various language areas across the world, paying particular attention to their dependence on glosses and glossaries. The contributions analyze, on the basis of significant case studies, how dictionaries first emerged in a wide spectrum of cultures, ranging from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, from Medieval Britain to 15th-century Poland. In this way, the book highlights both similarities and differences among these traditions, and allows a global and comparative approach to the history of lexicography in its earliest phases, a topic which, up until now, has usually been studied only within single languages and cultures.

Author : Stephen Turton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316518731

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Before the Word was Queer by Stephen Turton Pdf

This book uncovers how same-sex sexuality has been represented in English dictionaries from the early modern to the interwar period.

Author : Roderick McConchie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351870283

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers by Roderick McConchie Pdf

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 recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features. The articles collected here treat general lexicography and dictionaries in this period, their uses, and the state of research in this field. The volume also covers a fascinating and diverse collection of lexicographers, from the well known - John Palsgrave, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Elyot and John Florio - to those about whom next to nothing is known - Richard Howlet, John Baret and Peter Levens.

Author : Roderick W. McConchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198236301

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Lexicography and Physicke by Roderick W. McConchie Pdf

Medical practitioners of the sixteenth century had their own body of special terms, just like the doctors of this century. McConchie here examines medical terminology used in a selection of thirteen medical works published between 1530 and 1612, and compares it with the treatment of these words in the OED and other dictionaries of today. His study reveals errors, omissions, and biases that raise important questions for lexicographical tools in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110124211

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Dictionnaires by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rufus Gouws,Ulrich Heid,Wolfgang Schweickard,Herbert Ernst Wiegand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238136

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Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography by Rufus Gouws,Ulrich Heid,Wolfgang Schweickard,Herbert Ernst Wiegand Pdf

The basis for this additional volume are the three volumes of the handbooks Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography (HSK 5.1–5.3), published between 1989 and 1991. An updating has been perceived as an important desideratum for a considerable time. In the present Supplementary Volume the premises and subjects of HSK 5.1–5.3 are complemented by new articles that take account of the practice-internal and theoretical developments of the last 15 years. Special attention has been given to the following topics: the status and function of lexicographic reference works, the history of lexicography, the theory of lexicography, lexicographic processes, lexicographic training and lexicographic institutions, new metalexicographic methods, electronic and, especially, computer-assisted lexicography.