The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
剑桥世界词典编纂史

John Considine, University of Alberta
9781107178861| Hardback |USD 155
972pp    2019/8
图书简介：
这部全球词典编纂史是首次对人类所编纂的词典的第一次纵览，从美索不达米亚、埃及、中国、印度和希腊罗马世界的古代文明，到每一个有人居住的大陆的现代语言社区。它们的制造者包括诗人和士兵、圣人和朝臣、古埃及“生命之家”的抄写员和越南女王。内容包括泰米尔棕榈叶手稿和支持濒危澳大利亚语言的词典应用程序。通过引人入胜和通俗易懂的研究，一个由顶尖学者组成的多样化团队为人们提供了对数百种语言的词典、对那些使用或观察这些语言的人的想象世界，以及对人类各种令人眼花缭乱的文化的深入了解。
• Offers the first comprehensive account of the full history of lexicography spanning five thousand years
• Provides a truly global history of dictionaries, covering about three hundred languages
• Delivers engaging and accessible contributions from leading scholars in the field






章节内容：
Part I. The Ancient World: 1. Ancient Mesopotamia Niek Veldhuis; 2. Ancient and Coptic Egypt Frank Feder; 3. Ancient China Françoise Bottéro; 4. Ancient India Lata Mahesh Deokar and Jean-Luc Chevillard; 5. The Greco-Roman world Rolando Ferri; Part II. The Pre-Modern World: 6. China c.600–c.1700 Nathan Vedal; 7. India and Tibet, c.500–c.1750 Lata Mahesh Deokar and Jean-Luc Chevillard; 8. Arabic to c.1800 Ramzi Baalbaki; 9. Hebrew to c.1650 Aharon Maman; 10. The Chinese periphery to c.1800 Mårten Söderblom Saarela; 11. The Turkic languages and Persian to c.1700 Marek Stachowski; 12. Byzantine Greek Stefano Valente; 13. Medieval Latin Christendom John Considine; 14. Early modern Western and Central Europe John Considine; Part III. The Modern World: Continuing Traditions: 15. China from c.1700 Henning Klöter; 16. Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese from c.1800 David Lurie, Heokseung Kwon and John D. Phan; 17. Turkish and Persian from c.1700 Luciano Rocchi and Arthur Dudney; 18. South Asia from c.1750 Walter Hakala and Lisa Mitchell; 19. Arabic from c.1800 Jan Hoogland; 20. Modern Hebrew Tsvi Sadan; 21. The Slavic and Baltic languages Rick Derksen; 22. The Germanic languages other than English from c.1700 Ulrike Haß; 23. Standard varieties of English from c.1700 Charlotte Brewer; 24. Regional varieties of English Michael Adams; 25. The Romance languages from c.1700 Pascale Renders; Part IV. The Modern World: Missionary and Subsequent Traditions: 26. Missionary traditions in South America Otto Zwartjes; 27. Missionary traditions in Mesoamerica Otto Zwartjes; 28. Missionary and subsequent traditions in North America Willem de Reuse; 29. Missionary traditions in East Asia Otto Zwartjes; 30. European traditions in India and Indonesia Toon Van Hal; 31. Missionary and subsequent traditions in Africa Gonçalo Fernandes; 32. Missionary and other traditions in Australia William B. McGregor.
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