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Overview
This comprehensive guide to English language dictionaries explores how definitions are compiled, written, and edited, discusses the role of usage guides and focuses on problems such as regional language variation.Synopsis
This second edition offers a comprehensive and completely up-to-date description of how dictionaries are researched and written.
Booknews
**** A reprint of the Scribner edition (1984)--the excellence of which is acknowledged by BCL3. Landau is a great scholar and practitioner of lexicography (International dictionary of biology and medicine) being a recent masterpiece). This is a comprehensive guide to English language dictionaries which explains what distinguishes dictionaries from all other reference books, reviews the history of dictionary writing, explores how definitions are compiled, written, and edited, and discusses the role of usage guides. Includes a critical bibliography of the major dictionaries in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
Booknews
**** A reprint of the Scribner edition (1984)--the excellence of which is acknowledged by BCL3. Landau is a great scholar and practitioner of lexicography (International dictionary of biology and medicine) being a recent masterpiece). This is a comprehensive guide to English language dictionaries which explains what distinguishes dictionaries from all other reference books, reviews the history of dictionary writing, explores how definitions are compiled, written, and edited, and discusses the role of usage guides. Includes a critical bibliography of the major dictionaries in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)From the Publisher
"No other introduction to lexicography outshines the limpid style of Dictionaries or the rich balance of its contents." Journal of the Dictionary Society of America"Here is a new thing under the sun: a virtually exhaustive treatment of lexicography...should be required reading for all lexicographers and can be heartily recommended to everyone else who cares to know what dictionaries are like and how to use them to best advantage." The Times Literary Supplement