The Cambridge World History of Lexicography

Author:   John Considine (University of Alberta)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107178861


Pages:   972
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Considine (University of Alberta)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 4.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.670kg
ISBN:  

9781107178861


ISBN 10:   110717886
Pages:   972
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Part I. The Ancient World: 1. Ancient Mesopotamia Niek Veldhuis; 2. Ancient and Coptic Egypt Frank Feder; 3. Ancient China Françoise Bottéro; 4. Ancient India Lata Mahesh Deokar and Jean-Luc Chevillard; 5. The Greco-Roman world Rolando Ferri; Part II. The Pre-Modern World: 6. China c.600–c.1700 Nathan Vedal; 7. India and Tibet, c.500–c.1750 Lata Mahesh Deokar and Jean-Luc Chevillard; 8. Arabic to c.1800 Ramzi Baalbaki; 9. Hebrew to c.1650 Aharon Maman; 10. The Chinese periphery to c.1800 Mårten Söderblom Saarela; 11. The Turkic languages and Persian to c.1700 Marek Stachowski; 12. Byzantine Greek Stefano Valente; 13. Medieval Latin Christendom John Considine; 14. Early modern Western and Central Europe John Considine; Part III. The Modern World: Continuing Traditions: 15. China from c.1700 Henning Klöter; 16. Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese from c.1800 David Lurie, Heokseung Kwon and John D. Phan; 17. Turkish and Persian from c.1700 Luciano Rocchi and Arthur Dudney; 18. South Asia from c.1750 Walter Hakala and Lisa Mitchell; 19. Arabic from c.1800 Jan Hoogland; 20. Modern Hebrew Tsvi Sadan; 21. The Slavic and Baltic languages Rick Derksen; 22. The Germanic languages other than English from c.1700 Ulrike Haß; 23. Standard varieties of English from c.1700 Charlotte Brewer; 24. Regional varieties of English Michael Adams; 25. The Romance languages from c.1700 Pascale Renders; Part IV. The Modern World: Missionary and Subsequent Traditions: 26. Missionary traditions in South America Otto Zwartjes; 27. Missionary traditions in Mesoamerica Otto Zwartjes; 28. Missionary and subsequent traditions in North America Willem de Reuse; 29. Missionary traditions in East Asia Otto Zwartjes; 30. European traditions in India and Indonesia Toon Van Hal; 31. Missionary and subsequent traditions in Africa Gonçalo Fernandes; 32. Missionary and other traditions in Australia William B. McGregor.

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John Considine is Professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage (Cambridge, 2008), Academy Dictionaries 1600–1800 (Cambridge, 2014), and Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe (2017); he has edited or co-edited six other books on lexicography. He has contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary for the last thirty years, formerly as library researcher and as assistant editor, and now as a consultant.

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