Words of the World : A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
Sarah. Ogilvie
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (270 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Words of the World; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Appendix figures; Preface; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; 1 Entering the OED; Discoveries in the archives; Re-evaluating the story of `progress ́; 2 A global dictionary from the beginning; 3 James Murray and Words of the World; Criticism of James Murray ́s inclusive policy and practice by his contemporaries; Recent criticisms of the dictionary and James Murray; Murray in Oxford; 4 James Murray and the Stanford Dictionary controversy; The Stanford Dictionary controversy. - Implementation of the decision to drop tramlines in the 1933 SupplementThe OED and the BBC advisory committee on spoken English; Charles Onions and the use of tramlines in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; Solving the mystery of the vanishing tramlines; 6 Robert Burchfield and words of the world in the OED Supplements; Burchfield and his image as champion of words of the world; Case study: loanwords and World Englishes in the OED supplements; Case study purpose; Case study sample; Definitions of `World Englishes ́ and `loanwords ́ in the case study; Case study method; Case study results. - Reaction at the OED to the publication of the Stanford DictionaryCase study: a comparison of the Stanford Dictionary and OED1; Result 1: The Stanford Dictionary and OED1 shared 19% of entries in the sample; Result 2: The Stanford Dictionary antedated OED1 in 40% of entries in the sample; Result 3: The Stanford Dictionary acknowledged OED1 for 70% of shared first-sense quotations in the sample; Result 4: Fennell did not acknowledge OED1 for 30% of shared first-sense quotations, or 6% of all entries, in the sample; Result 5: OED1 antedated the Stanford Dictionary in 18% of entries in the sample. - Result 6: The letters A-C in the Stanford Dictionary were disproportionately larger than the rest of the dictionaryThe `National Dictionary of English Language and Literature ́ to rival OED1; The impact of the Stanford Dictionary controversy on OED1; 5 William Craigie, Charles Onions, and the mysterious case of the vanishing tramlines; The 1933 OED Supplement; No tramlines in the 1933 Supplement; Tramlines in the 1933 Supplement proofs; The reason for dropping tramlines in the 1933 Supplement; The OED and the Society for Pure English (SPE); The Word timbre and the SPE ́s influence on the OED. - The true champion of loanwords and World Englishes in the OED Supplements: Charles Onions7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Published works; Index. - Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.
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| ISBN | 9781107021839. - 9781107605695
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