Historical Dictionaries in their Paratextual Context /

Historical Dictionaries in their Paratextual Context / / ed. by Roderick McConchie, Jukka Tyrkkö.

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Both dictionary and paratext research have emerged recently as widely-recognised research areas of intrinsic interest. This collection represents an attempt to place dictionaries within the paratextual context for the first time. This volume covers paratextual concerns, including dictionary producti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Michael,
Dolezal, Fredric T.,
Domínguez-Rodríguez, M. Victoria,
Frolova, Olga E.,
Iamartino, Giovanni,
McConchie, Roderick,
Ogilvie, Sarah,
Risvold, Ward J.,
Rodríguez-Álvarez, Alicia,
Shapiro, Rebecca,
Stein, Gabriele,
Tiisala, Seija,
Tyrkkö, Jukka,
Vişan, Ruxandra,
HerausgeberIn:
McConchie, Roderick,
Tyrkkö, Jukka ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 153
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Reading Trench reading Richardson
  • Did Anne Maxwell print John Wilkins’s An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language (1668)?
  • “As well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant”
  • Printed English dictionaries in the National Library of Russia to the mid-seventeenth century
  • “A hundred visions and revisions”: Malone’s annotations to Johnson’s Dictionary
  • The use of “mechanical reasoning”: John Quincy and his Lexicon physico-medicum (1719)
  • Paratexts and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: ‘content marketing’ in the nineteenth century?
  • The “wants” of women: Lexicography and pedagogy in seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury dictionaries*
  • Claudius Hollyband: A lexicographer speaks his mind
  • Subscribers and Patrons: Jacob Serenius and his Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum 1734
  • “Weak Shrube or Underwood”: The unlikely medical glossator John Woodall and his glossary
  • A “florid” preface about “a language that is very short, concise and sententious”
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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