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lexicography, the applied study of the meaning, evolution, and function of the vocabulary units of a language for the purpose of compilation in book form—in short, the process of dictionary making. Early lexicography, practiced from the 7th cent. B.C. in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, was reserved for abstruse words of specific disciplines. General lexicography originated in the 16th cent., and aspects of the modern dictionary dictionary, published list, in alphabetical order, of the words of a language. In monolingual dictionaries the words are explained and defined in the same language; in bilingual dictionaries they are translated into another language. ..... Click the link for more information. , such as etymology, developed during the 17th and 18th cent. Lexicography Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784) literary scholar, creator of first comprehensive lexicographical work of English. [Br. Hist.: EB, V: 591] (1837–1915) renowned editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. [Br. Hist.: Caught in the Web of Words] (OED) great multi-volume historical dictionary of English. [Br. Hist.: Caught in the Web of Words] (1758–1843) philologist and compiler of popular comprehensive American dictionary. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 902] now used generically, synonymous in U.S. with authoritativeness in a dictionary. [Am. Cult.: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Words, Words, Words: Houghmagandie, Knockers, Trolleys & Others by linguist and academician Diarmaid O Muirithe (former Senior Lecturer in Irish, University College Dublin), expertly probes lexicography, dialect, sexual practices, sport and social history to create a humorous, informed and informative guide for non-specialist general readers to some of the more obscure and bizarre byways of the English language. Surprisingly, I discovered another example of complacency in one of his writings, on lexicography, where a subheading titled "The lexographic [sic] explosion" caught my attention. These budding endeavors in systematic intellectual work soon inspired the cultivation of sophisticated linguistic sciences (etymology, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, prosody, metrics, rhetoric, and tajwid, the art of Qur'anic recitation) which emphasized the precise relations between words and their meanings. |
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