The lexicography of English from origins to present

• Main Author: Bejoint, Henri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Αγγλική γλώσσα > Λεξικογραφία; Αγγλική γλώσσα > Λεξικογραφία > Ιστορία

Table of Contents:

• Dictionaries and the dictionary
• A brief history of English dictionaries
• The British tradition of the scholarly dictionary
• The American tradition of the utility dictionary
• A new tradition : the dictionary for foreign students
• English dictionaries of the twentieth century : the cultural, the functional, and the scientific
• The study of dictionary users and uses
• Lexicography and linguistics
• Computers and corpora in lexicography
• A theory of lexicography?.