Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research

Papers from the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, at the University of Leicester, 2002

Julie Coleman, Anne McDermott, Julie Coleman, Anne McDermott

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783484391239
• eBook ISBN: 9783110912609
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This volume is a collection of papers from the 1st International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology at the University of Leicester in 2002. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scholars and academics from around the world working as scholars and editors on historical dictionaries or as practising lexicographers. The papers are, accordingly, arranged in two sections, reflecting the distinction between those individuals working on the historical development of dictionaries and those considering the lexicological problems and challenges facing the lexicographer in attempting to represent as fully and justly as possible historical forms of the English language.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Dictionary History
• Du Cange: Lexicography and the Medieval Heritage
• Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS 0.5.4: A 15th Century Pedagogical Dictionary?
• Lexicography in the Early Modern Period: the Manuscript Record
• Author’s Lexicography with Special Reference to Shakespeare Dictionaries
• An Analysis of a Seventeenth Century Conceptual Dictionary with an Alphabetical List of Entries and a Network Definition Structure: John Wilkins’ and William Lloyd’s An Alphabetical Dictionary (1668)
• Text and Meaning in Richardson’s Dictionary
• An Autodidact’s Lexicon: Thomas Spence’s Grand Repository of the English Language (1775)
• The Third Edition of Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Bookseller’s Hackwork or Posthumous Masterpiece?
• Roget’s Thesaurus, deconstructed
• From Incipit to Iconophor
• The History of a Multi-dialectal Catalan Dictionary: the Diccionari Català-Valencia-Balear
• Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the First European Lexicographical Work in China
• Historical Dictionaries
• Polysemy and the Dictionary of Old English
• Aspects of Polysemy in the Middle English Dictionary
• Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the Eighteenth Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English
• Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
• Citations in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal
• Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare’s Informal English
• Index