The Cambridge World History of Lexicography

John Considine (University of Alberta)

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Cambridge University Press
22 August 2019

Lexicography; Literary reference works

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.

Edited by: John Considine (University of Alberta)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 47mm
Weight: 1.670kg
ISBN: 9781107178861
ISBN 10: 110717886X
Pages: 972
Publication Date: 22 August 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.