Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest

by Lynda Mugglestone (Editor)

Overview

The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199251957
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/17/2002
Series:	Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.42(w) x 6.02(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Lynda Mugglestone is Fellow in English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, and News International Lecturer in Language and Communication. She has written widely on nineteenth-century language and associated issues–literary and linguistic, as well as lexicographic.

Table of Contents

1. Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest, Lynda Mugglestone2. Making the OED, Elizabeth Knowles3. OED Sources, Charlotte Brewer4. Murray and his European Counterparts, Noel Osselton5. Time and Meaning, Penny Silva6. The Compass of the Vocabulary, Anne Curzan7. Words and Word-Formation, Dieter Kastovsky8. OED and the Earlier History of English, Eric Stanley9. The Vocabulary of Science in the OED, Michael Rand Hoare and Vivian Salmon10. Pronunciation in the OED, Michael K. C. MacMahon11. An Historian not a Critic, Lynda Mugglestone12. This Unique and Peerless Specimen, Richard W. BaileyAppendix 1. OED Sections and Parts, Jenny McMorrisAppendix 2. OED Personalia, Peter GilliverAppendix 3. The OED and the Public, Richard W. Bailey