Description
Book SynopsisThis book unfolds chronologically, comprehensively and coherently, for the first time and under one cover, a spectacular landscape of how lexicographies of core native-speaker varieties of English (other than British English) originate and develop, directly or indirectly, from their British roots to current shapes and prosperity, tracing their evolutional links with and inheritance from British (occasionally American) lexicographical tradition, their interrelation to socio-cultural settings, as well as their reformation and divergences through innovation and self-expansion.
This pioneering work gives special focus to many unknown aspects and areas of world English lexicography and concludes with visions, prospects and possible transformations of its development in the 21st century. It is the first attempt to go beyond the traditional confines of ontological studies in the history of lexicography, integrating sociolinguistic and lexicographical approaches and setting the diach
Table of Contents
British Lexicographical Tradition and the Development of World English Lexicography – American English Lexicography and Its Inheritance and Reformation of British Lexicographical Tradition – British Lexicographical Tradition and the Development of Australian English Lexicography – British and American Lexicographical Tradition and the Making of Canadian English Dictionaries – British Lexicographical Tradition in the Shaping of New Zealand English Lexicography – The Extending Influence of British Lexicographical Tradition and the Shaping of South African English Lexicography – Prospects for the Development of World English Lexicography – Bibliography – Index.
