Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most of the lexicographical traditions in the world, some tracing them right back to their beginnings. The programme was divided into eight sessions, with the following concentrations of topics: (1) three classical traditions, (2) the early history of European lexicography, (3) the beginnings of English lexicography, (4) further aspects of English lexicography, (5) the background of diverse national developments, (6) specific features of national developments, (7) pioneers of three genres, (8) recent trends in the English dictionary.
The History of Lexicography
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- Preface; 2. A Concise History of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (by Allen, Robert Edward); 3. Richelet's dictionnaire francois (1680) as a Source of LA PORTE DES SIENCES (1682) and Le Roux's DICTIONAIRE COMIQUE (1718) (by Bray, Laurent); 4. The History of Pronunciation in English-Language Dictionaries (by Bronstein, Arthur J.); 5. A Brief History of Chinese Bilingual Lexicography (by Chien, David); 6. How Abstract is the English Dictionary? (by Dolezal, Fredric); 7. The Development of the Bilingual English-Arabic Dictionary from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Present (by El-Badry, Nawal); 8. The Beginnings of Lexicography in Croatia (by Filipovic, Rudolf); 9. Afrikaans Lexicography (by Gouws, Rufus H.); 10. The duden rechtschreibung 1880-1986: Development and Function of a Popular Dictionary (by Hatherall, Glyn); 11. Learned Lexicographers of the North: Seventeenth-century vignettes (by Haugen, Einar); 12. The Entry in Medieval Arabic Monolingual Dictionaries: Some aspects of arrangement and content (by Haywood, John A.); 13. The Paradigm of John Wilkins' Thesaurus (by Hullen, Werner); 14. Lexicographic Archaeology: Comparing dictionaries of the same family (by Ilson, Robert F.); 15. The Humanist Period in Renaissance Bilingual Lexicography (by Kibbee, Douglas A.); 16. Laszlo Orszagh, the Lexicographer (by Magay, Tamas); 17. Thematic Lexicography (by McArthur, Tom); 18. Four Remarks on the Prehistory of Historical lexicography (by Merkin, Reuven); 19. The First English Dictionary?: A sixteenth-century compiler at work (by Osselton, N.E.); 20. The Development of the General Monolingual Dictionary in Poland (by Piotrowski, Tadeusz); 21. Competing lexicographical Traditions in America (by Read, Allan Walker); 22. The Bilingual Dictionary - Victim of its own tradition? (by Snell-Hornby, Mary); 23. Sixteenth-Century English-Vernacular Dictionaries (by Stein, Gabriele); 24. The Three-Century Recension in Spanish and English Lexicography (by Steiner, Roger J.); 25. Appendix A: Bibliography of Cited Dictionaries; 26. Appendix B: Seminar Programme; 27. Appendix C: List of Participants; 28. List of Contributors; 29. Illustrations/Tables; 30. Richelet as a source of la porte des siences (1682) and Le Roux's dictionaire comique (1718); 31. Title Page, opera nuova che insegna a parlare la lingua schiavonesca (1527); 32. Titles of the duden rechtschreibung (1880-1986); 33. Title Page, an alphabetical dictionary (Wilkins 1668); 34. Title Page, lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse palsgrave (1530)