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Chargement... Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED (original 2007; édition 2008)par Dr. Charlotte Brewer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Publishing house histories are often mind-numbingly turgid, based on corporate archives and filled with sales statistics and personnel changes. Perhaps because Dr Brewer's history is of the OED - largely since its original publication in 1928 - rather than the OUP, this book is anything but. It is as much the story of the role of the institution of the OED in how we view the English language as of its production. Yet Brewer's sources were administrative records and she doesn't stint on this side of the history. It is a testament to her own ability as a writer, then, that the book is such a page-turner. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past, a testament to the richness of the English language today, and a guarantor of future understanding of the language. In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped--the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928--and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into a twenty-first-century electronic medium. Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up to date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices. With humor and empathy, she portrays the predilections and personalities of the editors, publishers, and assistants who undertook the Sisyphean task of keeping apace with the modern explosion of vocabulary. Utilizing rich archives in Oxford as well as new electronic resources, the author uncovers a history no less complex and fascinating than the Oxford English Dictionary itself. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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