Publisher's Synopsis
This volume brings together fifteen articles exploring the linguistic and literary foundations of lexicography and lexicology. Topics explored here include a discussion of the relationships between lexicography and ideology in China; Frisian legal language and the Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch; the history and lexicography of Faroese; Wortgeschichte digital and its relation to Grimmian tradition; the linguistic history of phonetically imitative words; and studies of Czech, Greek, Turkish, and Croatian historical dictionaries, among others. The book also presents a digital and textual study on the status of eponyms across the history of the Royal Society, a modern history of bilingual Russian-Tajik terminological dictionaries, and a detailed historical overview of the development, successes and challenges of the lexicography of Frisian.
The research findings and close readings by expert practitioners and historians of dictionaries and word studies found in the pages of this volume continue to broaden critical perspectives upon the study of manuscripts and print artifacts; dictionaries and standard varieties; biographies; bibliography and text analyses; dictionary production; and corpus and digital analyses.
