Anhand des vielseitig verwendeten und lexikographisch schwierig zu handhabenden Wortes
gibt dieser Aufsatz einen Einblick in die Leistung eines wissenschaftlichen Wörterbuchs, das den ...schweizerdeutschen Wortschatz in seiner Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit über eine Zeitspanne von sieben Jahrhunderten dokumentiert und dabei seit jeher großen Wert aufs Detail legt: das
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verbundenen Überlegungen vorgestellt und anhand ausgewählter Themen einige von dessen Inhalten präsentiert. Anschließend wird die über 140-jährige Geschichte der Darstellung der Funktionswörter in den bislang sechzehneinhalb Bänden des
aufgerollt. Den Schluss des Aufsatzes bildet ein Plädoyer für eine sorgfältige Berücksichtigung dieser hochfrequeten Lexeme durch die Lexikographie.
Le dictionnaire, confronté à la diversité des emplois dans les pratiques langagières et fidèle gardien d’une certaine norme, souffre de plusieurs contraintes relatives à l’espace de liberté qu’il ...peut offrir aux locuteurs qui le consultent. Nous essaierons de monter comment les lexicographes usent de plusieurs choix méthodologiques, techniques et procédures pour préserver un tel espace.
Dictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, published and used, has much to tell us about the language and the culture of the past. This ...monumental work of scholarship draws on published and archival material to survey a wide range of dictionaries of western European languages (including English, German, Latin and Greek) published between the early sixteenth and mid -seventeenth centuries. John Considine establishes a powerful model for the social and intellectual history of lexicography by examining dictionaries both as imaginative texts and as scholarly instruments. He tells the stories of national and individual heritage and identity that were created through the making of dictionaries in the early modern period. Far from dry, factual collections of words, dictionaries are creative works, shaping as well as recording early modern culture and intellectual history.
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English
InThe Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic ...fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
The overwhelming questions in the dictionary wars involved which and whose English was truly American and whether a dictionary of English should attempt to be American at all, independent from Britain. Martin tells the human story of the intense rivalry between America's first lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Emerson Worcester, who fought over who could best represent the soul and identity of American culture. Webster believed an American dictionary, like the American language, ought to be informed by the nation's republican principles, but Worcester thought that such language reforms were reckless and went too far. Their conflict continued beyond Webster's death, when the ambitious Merriam brothers acquired publishing rights to Webster'sAmerican Dictionaryand launched their own language wars. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Civil War, the dictionary wars also engaged America's colleges, libraries, newspapers, religious groups, and state legislatures at a pivotal historical moment that coincided with rising literacy and the print revolution.
Delving into the personal stories and national debates that arose from the conflicts surrounding America's first dictionaries,The Dictionary Warsexamines the linguistic struggles that underpinned the founding and growth of a nation.
Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and ...how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.
