English Lexicography from British Tradition to World Englishes

ISBN-13: 9781433186967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 194 str.

Heming Yong

Opis

This book discusses how lexicographies of core native-speaker varieties of English (other than British) originate and develop from their British roots to modern forms. It describes their interrelation to socio-cultural settings, as well as their reformation and divergences through innovation and self-expansion.

Spis treści

British Lexicographical Tradition and the Development of World English Lexicography - American English Lexicography and Its Inheritance and Reformation of British Lexicographical Tradition - British Lexicographical Tradition and the Development of Australian English Lexicography - British and American Lexicographical Tradition and the Making of Canadian English Dictionaries - British Lexicographical Tradition in the Shaping of New Zealand English Lexicography - The Extending Influence of British Lexicographical Tradition and the Shaping of South African English Lexicography - Prospects for the Development of World English Lexicography - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Yong Heming is currently a professor at Guangdong University of Finance, with a doctoral degree from Macquarie University. His academic interests include diachronic lexicography, communicative lexicography and translation studies. He has published several books and his research findings have been reviewed in prestigious journals in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Holland, Australia as well as China.