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9781316631119: The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
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ISBN 10: 1316631117 ISBN 13: 9781316631119
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and the Greco-Roman world, to the contemporary speech communities of every inhabited continent. Their makers included poets and soldiers, saints and courtiers, a scribe in an ancient Egyptian 'house of life' and a Vietnamese queen. Their physical forms include Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts and the dictionary apps which are supporting endangered Australian languages. Through engaging and accessible studies, a diverse team of leading scholars provide fascinating insight into the dictionaries of hundreds of languages, into the imaginative worlds of those who used or observed them, and into a dazzling variety of the literate cultures of humankind.

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Acerca del autor

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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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1316631117
ISBN 13 
9781316631119
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
974
Editor
Considine John
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Hamburg
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