A History of the Chambers Dictionary / / Mariusz Kaminski.
In the literature on English lexicography there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries that have been around for many years in English-speaking countries. A dictionary like Chambers deserves special attention because of its long tradition that goes back t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Editions of Chambers, in chronological order
- List of tables / List of figures
- Introduction
- 1 Methodological and theoretical foundations of the analysis
- 2 The founders of W. & R. Chambers publishing house
- 3 The origin of the dictionary
- 4 Biographical notes on the editors
- 5 Educational beginnings: Chambers’s Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Ch-A, 1867)
- 6 Towards the optimal arrangement of entries
- 7 The selection of morphological forms
- 8 The growth of vocabulary
- 9 Defining meaning
- 10 The order and discrimination of senses
- 11 Etymology
- 12 Usage labels
- 13 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic information
- 14 Pronunciation
- 15 Outside matter
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Sample 1
- Sample 2
- References
- Index