The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Title - Full......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 21
Chronology......Page 22
Chapter 1 - Introduction......Page 29
Part I - Issues in English Lexicography......Page 33
Chapter 2 - How a Word Gets into an English Dictionary......Page 35
Chapter 3 - Technology and English Dictionaries......Page 46
Chapter 4 - Diachronic and Synchronic English Dictionaries......Page 59
Chapter 5 - Description and Prescription: The Roles of English Dictionaries......Page 73
Chapter 6 - European Cross-Currents in English Lexicography......Page 86
Chapter 7 - English Slang Dictionaries......Page 103
Part II - English Dictionaries Throughout the Centuries......Page 115
Chapter 8 - A Dictionary Ecosystem: Four Centuries of English Lexicography......Page 117
Seventeenth-Century English Dictionaries: Hard Words......Page 129
Chapter 9 - Cawdrey, Coote, and ‘Hard Vsual English Wordes’......Page 131
Chapter 10 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Lexicography......Page 142
Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Prescriptivism and Completeness......Page 155
Chapter 11 - Recording the Most Proper and Significant Words......Page 157
Chapter 12 - Samuel Johnson and the ‘First English Dictionary’......Page 170
Nineteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Descriptivism......Page 183
Chapter 13 - The Making of American English Dictionaries......Page 185
Chapter 14 - The Oxford English Dictionary......Page 198
Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Dictionaries......Page 209
Chapter 15 - The English Period Dictionaries......Page 211
Chapter 16 - English-as-a-Foreign-Language Lexicography......Page 223
Chapter 17 - Electronic Dictionaries......Page 235
Chapter 18 - English Dictionaries and Corpus Linguistics......Page 247
Chapter 19 - Natural Language Processing in Lexicography......Page 268
Part III - Dictionaries of English and Related Varieties......Page 281
Chapter 20 - Dictionaries of Canadian English......Page 283
Chapter 21 - Australian Lexicography: Defining the Nation......Page 293
Chapter 22 - New Zealand’s Lexicographic Legacy......Page 302
Chapter 23 - Hobson-Jobson and Dictionaries of Indian English......Page 310
Chapter 24 - South African English Dictionaries: From Colonial to Post-Colonial......Page 316
Chapter 25 - Dictionaries of Caribbean English: Agents of Standardisation......Page 326
Chapter 26 - Dictionary of American Regional English......Page 334
Chapter 27 - The Scottish Dictionary Tradition......Page 343
Guide to Further Reading......Page 352
Index......Page 370