Historical dictionaries in their paratextual context / edited by Roderick McConchie and Jukka Tyrkkö.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McConchie, R. W. (Roderick W.), editor.

Tyrkkö, Jukka, editor.

Series:

Lexicographica. Series maior ; Volume 153.

Lexicographica. Series Maior ; Volume 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicography--History.

Lexicography.

English language--Dictionaries--History.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 318 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Both dictionary and paratext research have emerged recently as widely-recognised research areas of intrinsic interest. This collection represents an attempt to place dictionaries within the paratextual context for the first time. This volume covers paratextual concerns, including dictionary production and use, questions concerning compilers, publishers, patrons and subscribers, and their cultural embedding generally. This book raises questions such as who compiled dictionaries and what cultural, linguistic and scientific notions drove this process. What influence did the professional interests, life experience, and social connexions of the lexicographer have? Who published dictionaries and why, and what do the forematter, backmatter, and supplements tell us? Lexicographers edited, adapted and improved earlier works, leaving copies with marginalia which illuminate working methods. Individual copies offer a history of ownership through marginalia, signatures, dates, places, and library stamps. Further questions concern how dictionaries were sold, who patronised them, subscribed to them, and how they came to various libraries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / McConchie, Roderick / Tyrkkö, Jukka

Reading Trench reading Richardson / Adams, Michael

Did Anne Maxwell print John Wilkins's An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language (1668)? / Dolezal, Fredric T. / Risvold, Ward J.

"As well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant" / Domínguez-Rodríguez, M. Victoria / Rodríguez-Álvarez, Alicia

Printed English dictionaries in the National Library of Russia to the mid-seventeenth century / Frolova, Olga E. / McConchie, Roderick

"A hundred visions and revisions": Malone's annotations to Johnson's Dictionary / Iamartino, Giovanni

The use of "mechanical reasoning": John Quincy and his Lexicon physico-medicum (1719) / McConchie, Roderick

Paratexts and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: 'content marketing' in the nineteenth century? / Ogilvie, Sarah

The "wants" of women: Lexicography and pedagogy in seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury dictionaries* / Shapiro, Rebecca

Claudius Hollyband: A lexicographer speaks his mind / Stein, Gabriele

Subscribers and Patrons: Jacob Serenius and his Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum 1734 / Tiisala, Seija

"Weak Shrube or Underwood": The unlikely medical glossator John Woodall and his glossary / Tyrkkö, Jukka

A "florid" preface about "a language that is very short, concise and sententious" / Vişan, Ruxandra

List of contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110572964

3110572966

9783110574975

3110574977

OCLC:

1055681662