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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

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Sarah Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie
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The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries , pp. vii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  1. List of Illustrations

  2. List of Tables

  3. Notes on Contributors

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. Chronology

  6. 1Introduction

    Sarah Ogilvie

  7. Part IIssues in English Lexicography

    1. 2How a Word Gets into an English Dictionary

      Kory Stamper

    2. 3Technology and English Dictionaries

      Michael Rundell, Miloš Jakubíček, and Vojtěch Kovář

    3. 4Diachronic and Synchronic English Dictionaries

      Judy Pearsall

    4. 5Description and Prescription: The Roles of English Dictionaries

      Edward Finegan

    5. 6European Cross-Currents in English Lexicography

      Giovanni Iamartino

    6. 7English Slang Dictionaries

      Michael Adams

  8. Part IIEnglish Dictionaries Throughout the Centuries

    1. 8A Dictionary Ecosystem: Four Centuries of English Lexicography

      John Considine

    2. Seventeenth-Century English Dictionaries: Hard Words

      1. 9Cawdrey, Coote, and ‘Hard Vsual English Wordes’

        Roderick W. McConchie

      2. 10Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Lexicography

        Rebecca Shapiro

    3. Eighteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Prescriptivism and Completeness

      1. 11Recording the Most Proper and Significant Words

        Allen Reddick

      2. 12Samuel Johnson and the ‘First English Dictionary’

        Jack Lynch

    4. Nineteenth-Century English Dictionaries: Descriptivism

      1. 13The Making of American English Dictionaries

        Michael Adams

      2. 14The Oxford English Dictionary

        Sarah Ogilvie

    5. Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Dictionaries

      1. 15The English Period Dictionaries

        Robert E. Lewis and Antonette diPaolo Healey

      2. 16English-as-a-Foreign-Language Lexicography

        Howard Jackson

      3. 17Electronic Dictionaries

        Orin Hargraves

      4. 18English Dictionaries and Corpus Linguistics

        Patrick Hanks

      5. 19Natural Language Processing in Lexicography

        C. Paul Cook

  9. Part IIIDictionaries of English and Related Varieties

    1. 20Dictionaries of Canadian English

      Stefan Dollinger

    2. 21Australian Lexicography: Defining the Nation

      Pam Peters

    3. 22New Zealand’s Lexicographic Legacy

      John Macalister

    4. 23Hobson-Jobson and Dictionaries of Indian English

      Traci Nagle

    5. 24South African English Dictionaries: From Colonial to Post-Colonial

      Jill Wolvaardt

    6. 25Dictionaries of Caribbean English: Agents of Standardisation

      Jeannette Allsopp

    7. 26Dictionary of American Regional English

      George Goebel

    8. 27The Scottish Dictionary Tradition

      Maggie Scott

  10. Guide to Further Reading

  11. Index

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  • Contents
  • Edited by Sarah Ogilvie, University of Oxford
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
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