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Author:   Lynda Mugglestone (, Professor of the History of English, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.434kg
ISBN:  

9780199251957

ISBN 10:   0199251959
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   08 November 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Lynda Mugglestone: 'Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest': The New English Dictionary 2: Elizabeth Knowles: Making the OED: Readers and Editors. A Critical Survey 3: Charlotte Brewer: OED Sources 4: Noel Osselton: Murray and his European Counterparts 5: Penny Silva: Time and Meaning: Sense and Definition in the OED 6: Anne Curzan: The Compass of the Vocabulary 7: Dieter Kastovsky: Words and Word-Formation: Morphology in OED 8: Eric Stanley: OED and the Earlier History of English 9: Michael Rand Hoare and Vivian Salmon: The Vocabulary of Science in the OED 10: Michael K. C. MacMahon: Pronunciation in the OED 11: Lynda Mugglestone: 'An Historian not a Critic': The Standard of Usage in the OED 12: Richard W. Bailey: 'This Unique and Peerless Specimen': The Reputation of the OED Jenny McMorris: Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts Peter Gilliver: Appendix 2. OED Personalia Richard W. Bailey: Appendix 3. The OED and the Public

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...this collection gives some fascinating insights into the making of the OED and is an essential reading for lexicographers and students of English (historical) linguistics. Marcus Callies, eLanguage This volume provides an excellent scholarly assessment of the contribution of the OED and suggests many potentially fruitful areas for further research. LinguistList The authors adopt a range of linguistic approaches and frequently draw upon unpublished materials in the archives of Oxford University Press and the Murray papers ... Lynda Mugglestone provides an introduction to the volume by considering the achievement of the OED within its historical context ... This introduction provides a fascinating survey of the kinds of problems Murray and his associates were faced with on a daily basis. LinguistList Lexicography and the OED justifiably claims to be the most wide-ranging account yet published of the creation of one of the great canonical works of the 20th century ... This study is an essential acquisition for lexicographers, language scholars and researchers. Indeed, anyone with a passion for the English language and a basic knowledge of the history of the OED will find much of interest within these pages. Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Lynda Mugglestone is Fellow in English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, and News International Lecturer in Language and Communication. She has written widely on nineteenth-century language and associated issues -- literary and linguistic, as well as lexicographic.

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