Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography by Shapiro, Rebecca

Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781611488098)

Vendor: Rebecca Shapiro
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Format: Hardcover
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Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography by Shapiro, Rebecca

Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography

$184.00
Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography by Shapiro, Rebecca

Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography

$184.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English 'works' and this book reproduces and examines important texts in which early dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas. Fixing Babel provides authoritative transcriptions of documents from the front matter of major English dictionaries over a two-hundred-year period. It also provides commentary on, and annotation of, a wide range of lexicographical concerns.

Author: Rebecca Shapiro
ISBN-10: 1611488095
ISBN-13: 9781611488098
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2016
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2017
By Rebecca Shapiro
By Rebecca Shapiro
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Rebecca Shapiro is associate professor of English at the City University of New York.

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