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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Considine (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Alberta)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.70cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.622kg ISBN: 9780198785019ISBN 10: 0198785011 Pages: 334 Publication Date: 05 January 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I: Curiosity 2: Western lexicographers in the lands of the Mongols 3: Curiosity and lexicography from Petrarch to Leibniz 4: The history of lexicography and the history of curiosity Part II: The long sixteenth century 5: The first curiosity-driven wordlists: Rotwelsch 6: The broadening tradition: wordlists of other cryptolects 7: The curiosity-driven lexicography of a whole language: Romani 8: Weakly codified languages and lexicography in the sixteenth century 9: Curiosity-driven lexicography in the sixteenth century Part III: The long seventeenth century 10: Languages and regional varieties 11: Natural history and lexicography: John Ray and his friends 12: Ray's Collection of English words 13: Ray's German contemporaries and successors 14: Edward Lhuyd: The making of a lexicographer 15: Edward Lhuyd, travelling lexicographer 16: Edward Lhuyd's Glossography Part IV: The long eighteenth century 17: Polyglot collections from Gessner to Leibniz 18: Witsen, Leibniz, and the turn to Inner Eurasia 19: Strahlenberg and the lexicography of Inner Eurasia 20: Early wordlists of Scandinavian regionalisms 21: Early wordlists of Finnish and Sámi 22: Johan Ihre and Swedish lexicography 23: Dying languages 24: Old Prussian and Polabian 25: Cornish and Manx Part V: Into the nineteenth century 26: Dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic in the century of Ossian 27: Bardic dictionaries: Faroese, Serbian, and Breton 28: Lexicography and national epic in Finland Conclusion: Writing the history of lexicographyReviewsConsidine's work resurrects these almost forgotten practices and their fascinating results, and might even point the way towards a new oral history of early modern Europe. John Gallagher, Times Literary Supplement Author InformationJohn Considine teaches English at the University of Alberta, and contributes as a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, of which he was formerly an assistant editor. His books include Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (2008), Academy Dictionaries 1600-1800 (2014), and the edited volume Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: The Seventeenth Century (2012). He has also written on etymology, book history, and early modern literature. He is at present writing a new history of dictionaries in the British Isles from 1500 to 1800, and editing the Cambridge World History of Lexicography. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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