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Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries

Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries - Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology

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Publisher's Synopsis

There has been an extraodinary increase in the production of monolingual dictionaries of English in the last three decades. Despite some interesting recent developments in dictionary design and layout, in many funamental respects the dictionaries of today are very similar to those produced several centuries ago.;This book argues that this conservatism reflects the importance of the dictionary as culturally-constructed artefact. Dictionaries have remained the same because their traditional form exerts a powerful influence on polular ideas of what they should be. Contemporary research and theory will only filter through into dictionary-making when popular ideas about language and dictionaries change. This must be a slow process because the dictionaries are themselves such a powerful influence in the shaping of these ideas. Henri Bejoint is the co-editor of "Vocabulary and Applied Linguistics".

Book information

ISBN: 9780198239192
Publisher: Clarendon
Imprint: Clarendon
Pub date:
DEWEY: 423
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 276
Weight: 510g
Height: 210mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 24mm