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Werner Hüllen.
English Dictionaries, 800-1700: The Topical Tradition.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006 (previously issued in hardback, 1999).
Oxford Linguistics series.
ISBN 0199291047;
ISBN-13: 9780199291045.
Paperback, perfect bound.
Printed by Biddles, King's Lynn.
146x233x28mm.
xvii,525pp inc. a few monochrome illustrations.
English.
Very good condition: an unused copy with some mild shelf wear.This item £17.00
[Publisher's price £29.99]
833g.
From the Anglo-Saxons to the end of the Tudor era, many English dictionaries were arranged topically rather than alphabetically. Contents:
[BML/OUP]
The onomasiological approach;
On establishing a tradition;
Hermeneumata, Latin-English glosses, and nominales;
Colloquies, wordbooks, & dialogues for teaching & learning foreign languages;
Treatises on terminology;
John Withals' dictionary for young boys (1553);
James Howell's dictionary for the genteel (1660);
John Wilkins' comprehensive thesaurus of English (1668);
Multilingual dictionaries & nomenclators;
The case of Johannes Amos Comenius;
Towards mental lexicography.
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