The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Peter Gilliver
Abstract
This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. It explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary emerged as a new concept in the lexicography of English, and traces the process of bringing this concept to fruition, from the first attempts to collect quotation evidence in the 1850s, under the auspices of the Philological Society of London, through the engagement of Oxford University Press as the Dictionary’s publisher, the appearance of the first printed fasci ... More
Keywords: Oxford English Dictionary, OED, history, lexicography, lexicographers, dictionary, Philological Society, Oxford University Press, publishing, words
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199283620 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283620.001.0001 |
