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Peer reviewedFritze, Ronald H. – Reference Services Review, 1989
Reviews the development of English dictionaries in general and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in particular. The discussion covers the decision by the Philological Society to create the dictionary, the principles that guided its development, the involvement of James Augustus Henry Murray, the magnitude and progress of the project, and the…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, History, Lexicography
Download full textDinh-Hoa, Nguyen – 1987
The history of lexicography in Vietnam is chronicled from early Chinese and missionary scholarship through the colonial period (1884-1946), the war years (1946-1954), the partition period (1954-1975), and the post-1975 period. The evolution of romanization, political-linguistic influences, native scholarship in lexicography, and dictionary types…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Lexicography
