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Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone

Price: £27.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925195-7
Publication date: 8 November 2001
304 pages, 234x156 mm

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Reviews

'This volume provides an excellent scholarly assessment of the contribution of the OED and suggests many potentially fruitful areas for further research.' - LinguistList
'The authors adopt a range of linguistic approaches and frequently draw upon unpublished materials in the archives of Oxford University Press and the Murray papers ... Lynda Mugglestone provides an introduction to the volume by considering the achievement of the OED within its historical context ... This introduction provides a fascinating survey of the kinds of problems Murray and his associates were faced with on a daily basis.' - LinguistList
'Lexicography and the OED justifiably claims to be "the most wide-ranging account yet published of the creation of one of the great canonical works of the 20th century ... This study is an essential acquisition for lexicographers, language scholars and researchers. Indeed, anyone with a passion for the English language and a basic knowledge of the history of the OED will find much of interest within these pages. ' - Richard Boyle, Times Higher Education Supplement

Description

Wide use of previously unpublished archive material
Variety of approaches throughout the volume
Written by both lexicographers and linguists

The authors of this book draw on previously unpublished archive material to explore the pioneering endeavours of the scholars who conceived the Oxford English Dictionary and, with the assistance of an army of correspondents, brought it into being after half a century of Herculean labour. Its first publication in 1928 as the twelve-volume A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles was an important cultural event. In lexicographical and linguistic terms it was a revolution.

Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the dictionary constituted an emphatic return to first principles, in terms of the evidence by which the record of the language was constructed and in the nature of the work itself. The prescriptive policy of earlier dictionaries was replaced by empirical description, while new scientific principles of philology were deployed to advance the understanding of the meaning and function of language.

Lexicography and the OED provides new perspectives on the principles of the work and on the people, readers as well as editors, who created it. It includes chapters on its early history; the sources that were read for it; the nature of Englishness and the concept of the 'alien'; questions of inclusiveness and correctness; the standards of usage which the dictionary came to record; the treatment of early English and of science; the representation of pronunciation; the fundamental issues of word-formation; and the at times intractable problems of meaning. The book also sets the dictionary in the context of international lexicography, and examines how it was received by scholars and by the public.

This is the most wide-ranging account yet published of the creation of one of the great canonical works of the twentieth century.

Readership: Undergraduates and graduates in linguistics (especially lexicography); Other students and academics with an interest in nineteenth-century texts and the cultural history which surrounds them.

Contents

1. 'Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest': The New English Dictionary , Lynda Mugglestone

2. Making the OED : Readers and Editors. A Critical Survey , Elizabeth Knowles

3. OED Sources , Charlotte Brewer

4. Murray and his European Counterparts , Noel Osselton

5. Time and Meaning: Sense and Definition in the OED , Penny Silva

6. The Compass of the Vocabulary , Anne Curzan

7. Words and Word-Formation: Morphology in OED , Dieter Kastovsky

8. OED and the Earlier History of English , Eric Stanley

9. The Vocabulary of Science in the OED , Michael Rand Hoare and Vivian Salmon

10. Pronunciation in the OED , Michael K. C. MacMahon

11. 'An Historian not a Critic': The Standard of Usage in the OED , Lynda Mugglestone

12. 'This Unique and Peerless Specimen': The Reputation of the OED , Richard W. Bailey

Appendix 1. OED Sections and Parts , Jenny McMorris

Appendix 2. OED Personalia , Peter Gilliver

Appendix 3. The OED and the Public , Richard W. Bailey

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English, University of Oxford

Contributors:Richard W. Bailey
Charlotte Brewer
Anne Curzan
Peter Gilliver
Dieter Kastovsky
Elizabeth Knowles
Michael K. C. MacMahon
Jenny McMorris
Lynda Mugglestone
Noel Osselton
Michael Rand Hoare
Vivian Salmon
Penny Silva
Eric Stanley

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Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest