English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780199291045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str.

Werner Hullen

Opis

This fascinating study explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and 1700. A form of early dictionary, these lists followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history of the time, providing us with evidence on cultural history and linguistic development. Professor Hullen draws on many examples to provide an insight into this lexicographical tradition.
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Recenzje

Hüllen's book impresses not only by its sheer scope but also by the general fluency of style and breadth of insight.

O autorze

Werner Hüllen is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has published widely on the history of linguistics, including lexicography, and on the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. His monograph Their Manner of Discourse: Nachdenken über Sprache im Umkreis der Royal Society (Tübingen 1989) deals with the emergence of scientific discourse in the seventeenth century and the cultivation of a plain style in English. He co-edited the Handbuch Fremdsprachenunterricht (Tübingen 1989), the Handbuch Englisch als Fremdsprache (1995), and a handbook Fachsprachen: Languages for Special Purposes (Berlin 1998-9). His most recent book is A History of Roget's Thesaurus (OUP 2004; paperback edition, 2005).