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Historical dictionaries in their paratextual context /

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 producti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
Colección:Lexicographica. Series maior ; 153.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.