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Kaum harmlose Plackerei: Eine 500-jährige Bildgeschichte der lexikographisc
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- Artikelzustand
- ISBN-13
- 9781567928075
- Book Title
- Hardly Harmless Drudgery
- ISBN
- 9781567928075
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Hardly Harmless Drudgery : A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the English Language
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Subject
- Lexicography, General, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Item Width
- 7.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 520 Pages
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"A delight"-- Booklist A richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing to the present day. Dictionaries are repositories of erudition, monuments to linguistic authority, and battlefields in cultural and political struggles. For centuries, they were also works of almost superhuman endurance, produced by people who devoted themselves for years, even decades, to the wearisome labor of corralling, recording, and defining the vocabulary of a language. Dictionaries also are often beautiful objects: typographically innovative, designed to project learning and authority. Painstakingly collected and lovingly presented, here are the stories behind great works of scholarship and the people who produced them--their prodigious endurance, their nationalist fervor, their philological elucubrations haphazardly mixed with crackpot theories, their petty rivalries, their need for sales, and their sometimes irrational conduct and visceral hatreds. Readers will find towering figures of English lexicography--Samuel Johnson, the American patriot Noah Webster, the Oxford English Dictionary 's James Murray--and many more obscure lexicographers whose achievements and biographies are no less fascinating. For one, meet Ann Fisher, England's first female lexicographer, whose dictionary in 1773 introduced the radical innovation of alphabetically separating the letter pairs I and J and U and V (reacting against her predecessors who had "ever blended and confounded them"). The lesser-known works here include the small, unassuming 1604 book that is generally regarded as the "first English dictionary"; the early representatives of the "hard word" tradition as it evolves into attempts to cover the whole vocabulary; and the vast Century Dictionary --an American enterprise that rivaled the original OED. As the quest for completeness placed a dictionary beyond one author's ability (or lifespan), editors and publishers adapted. For the OED, in 1918, J. R. R. Tolkien was hired to define select words beginning with W (and he tackled warm , wash , wasp , water , wick , and winter ). Later in the 20th century, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language was marketed as relying not on famous literary figures or educators, but instead on computers for exactitude. However they may have been written and compiled, dictionaries induce us to ask about the basis of authority. Who gets to say what is an English word and what is not, what words mean, and how words should be used? The 19th century saw a craze for nonstandard, regional dialect, the collection of which led to crowdsourcing before that word had even been coined (the same basic method continues today with the Urban Dictionary website). In 1944, the first dictionary by a Black American (of slang "hepster jive") appeared. The first gay dictionary emerged in the early 1970s, followed in the 1980s by the first dictionary for feminists and the first for hackers. Meanwhile, the form of dictionaries has changed--especially since 1995 and the start-up website Dictionary.com. Today, the future of the printed dictionary is in question, but the central relevance of dictionaries, whatever their format, to communication and culture endures. Hardly Harmless Drudgery is a long-overdue celebration of all those who toiled in service of language and meaning. It covers more than half a millennium, from the 15th century to the 21st, with biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and engrossing details never before published. Profusely illustrated with 750 photographs of books and ephemera, this is nothing less than a glorious celebration of words and the people who love them.
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Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
1567928072
ISBN-13
9781567928075
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22062378103
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Hardly Harmless Drudgery : A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the English Language
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Lexicography, General, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
520 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2023-052330
Intended Audience
Trade
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Pe1611.G37 2024
Reviews
"Bountiful photos show the exteriors and interiors of the volumes discussed, and the authors' decision to highlight less obvious lexicographic volumes--such as poet Clarence Major's 1970 compilation of African American slang, a 1972 rundown of 'LGBTQ lingo,' and the online Urban Dictionary--ensure the proceedings don't get stodgy. Bibliophiles will swoon for this sweeping survey." -- Publishers Weekly "This fascinating history of English language dictionaries shows their evolution from fifteenth-century glossaries of early English through current online dictionaries . . . A delight for lexicographers, etymologists, philologists, and word geeks." -- Booklist "Bibliophiles will swoon for this sweeping survey.""What an achievement for both Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. Hardly Harmless Drudgery serves multiple constituencies, appealing both to the curious lover of books and to the scholar. We are fortunate that through Godine, the authors have made the book commercially accessible to everyone. It's a rare coffee-table book that marries beautiful photography with first-rate scholarship." -- David E. Vancil , Retired Director, Department of Rare Books andSpecial Collections, Indiana State University " Hardly Harmless Drudgery is an exciting and enriching read, an intellectually delectable feast for anyone who loves the beauty of dictionaries and the richness of their cultural content." -- Edward Finegan , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law,University of Southern California, "This fascinating history of English language dictionaries shows their evolution from fifteenth-century glossaries of early English through current online dictionaries . . . A delight for lexicographers, etymologists, philologists, and word geeks." -- Booklist "Bibliophiles will swoon for this sweeping survey." -- Publishers Weekly "What an achievement for both Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. Hardly Harmless Drudgery serves multiple constituencies, appealing both to the curious lover of books and to the scholar. We are fortunate that through Godine, the authors have made the book commercially accessible to everyone. It's a rare coffee-table book that marries beautiful photography with first-rate scholarship." -- David E. Vancil , Retired Director, Department of Rare Books andSpecial Collections, Indiana State University " Hardly Harmless Drudgery is an exciting and enriching read, an intellectually delectable feast for anyone who loves the beauty of dictionaries and the richness of their cultural content." -- Edward Finegan , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law,University of Southern California, "This fascinating history of English language dictionaries shows their evolution from fifteenth-century glossaries of early English through current online dictionaries . . . A delight for lexicographers, etymologists, philologists, and word geeks." -- Booklist "What an achievement for both Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. Hardly Harmless Drudgery serves multiple constituencies, appealing both to the curious lover of books and to the scholar. We are fortunate that through Godine, the authors have made the book commercially accessible to everyone. It's a rare coffee-table book that marries beautiful photography with first-rate scholarship." -- David E. Vancil , Retired Director, Department of Rare Books andSpecial Collections, Indiana State University " Hardly Harmless Drudgery is an exciting and enriching read, an intellectually delectable feast for anyone who loves the beauty of dictionaries and the richness of their cultural content." -- Edward Finegan , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law,University of Southern California, "A large, beautifully produced volume with hundreds of photos that moves from the early 16th century to the online dictionaries of today--along with biographical sketches of the 'colorful characters' who have devoted their lives to this work. It's enough to drive a person crazy--and it sometimes does." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club "Bountiful photos show the exteriors and interiors of the volumes discussed, and the authors' decision to highlight less obvious lexicographic volumes--such as poet Clarence Major's 1970 compilation of African American slang, a 1972 rundown of 'LGBTQ lingo,' and the online Urban Dictionary--ensure the proceedings don't get stodgy. Bibliophiles will swoon for this sweeping survey." -- Publishers Weekly "This fascinating history of English language dictionaries shows their evolution from fifteenth-century glossaries of early English through current online dictionaries . . . A delight for lexicographers, etymologists, philologists, and word geeks." -- Booklist "Bibliophiles will swoon for this sweeping survey.""What an achievement for both Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. Hardly Harmless Drudgery serves multiple constituencies, appealing both to the curious lover of books and to the scholar. We are fortunate that through Godine, the authors have made the book commercially accessible to everyone. It's a rare coffee-table book that marries beautiful photography with first-rate scholarship." -- David E. Vancil , Retired Director, Department of Rare Books andSpecial Collections, Indiana State University " Hardly Harmless Drudgery is an exciting and enriching read, an intellectually delectable feast for anyone who loves the beauty of dictionaries and the richness of their cultural content." -- Edward Finegan , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law,University of Southern California
Table of Content
Chapter 1 , "People Look It Up: The Origins of Printed Lexicography." Chapter 2 , "Hard Words Like Sesquipedalian: The Dawning of English Dictionaries." Chapter 3 , "Juggernaut Johnson: The Age of Authority." Chapter 4 , "The Declaration of Linguistic Independence: Noah Webster's American Dictionary." Chapter 5 , "Dictionary Warfare: The Webster Brand vs. Everyone." Chapter 6 , "Victorian Colossus: The Great OED." Chapter 7 , "What's a Guardian to Do? Strife in the 20th Century." Chapter 8 , "Vulgar Tongue: The Wild Variety of Englishes." Chapter 9 , "Beyond the Floppy Disk: Digitized Dictionaries."
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