Treasure-house of the Language: The Living OEDYale University Press, 01.01.2007 - 334 Seiten The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past, a testament to the richness of the English language today, and a guarantor of future understanding of the language. In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped--the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928--and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into a twenty-first-century electronic medium.
Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up to date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices. With humor and empathy, she portrays the predilections and personalities of the editors, publishers, and assistants who undertook the Sisyphean task of keeping apace with the modern explosion of vocabulary. Utilizing rich archives in Oxford as well as new electronic resources, the author uncovers a history no less complex and fascinating than the Oxford English Dictionary itself.
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Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
A national monument | 2 |
Celebration | 5 |
The next step? | 8 |
The end of the work or the beginning of a new? | 10 |
Press and Dictionary in 1928 | 14 |
Recent history | 24 |
Craigies Wanderlust and plans for a Supplement | 27 |
Supplementation or Revision? | 131 |
Sisams weighty memorandum | 136 |
Search for a permanent editor | 146 |
Burchfields Supplement 1 Producing a Dictionary | 152 |
Initial stages | 157 |
Expansions distractions and delays | 166 |
Burchfields Supplement 2 Editorial Policies and Practice | 175 |
A literary instrument? | 184 |
The Little People | 33 |
Beating the Track of the Alphabet Work on the First Supplement | 37 |
Wyllie arrives | 43 |
Two years to go | 50 |
The bottleneck | 52 |
I see that all things come to an end | 55 |
After the OED | 65 |
Colonel H G Le Mesurier | 69 |
the other Oxford dictionaries | 75 |
Wyllie and the OED Collections | 82 |
The Oxford Latin Dictionary OLD and Wyllies decline | 86 |
Treasurehouse of the Language Role and Function of the OED | 95 |
The OEDs predecessor Dr Johnson | 105 |
Scientific study of language and the OEDs plans for inclusiveness | 108 |
Language and culture | 112 |
Unsifted ore and the indeterminate extent of the English language | 115 |
Practical limits discrimination and prudishness | 119 |
Treasurehouse | 122 |
the raw material of the Dictionary | 127 |
Coda | 129 |
the example of Auden | 190 |
World English | 197 |
Scientific and technical vocabulary | 200 |
Contentious words and uses | 203 |
Coda | 210 |
The New Oxford English Dictionary Project | 213 |
Content and character of OED2 | 222 |
the Additions and the CDRoms | 229 |
The electronic OED | 233 |
general | 237 |
Editorial labels and usage notes | 244 |
Quotation sources | 249 |
Coda | 255 |
Examining the OED Note on authors OED website and on electronic searching of OED | 258 |
Glossary | 259 |
Notes | 264 |
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