Linda C. Mitchell
Ashgate
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As this lively new study effectively demonstrates dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Illuminating how dictionaries encoded social history during the period discussed Linda C. Mitchell here analyzes the ways in which early modern lexicographers constructed their authority examines the link between the conservative and the subversive in dictionaries and charts the shift of linguistic authority from grammarians to lexicographers.
Ashgate
Hardback
192
As this lively new study effectively demonstrates dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Illuminating how dictionaries encoded social history during the period discussed Linda C. Mitchell here analyzes the ways in which early modern lexicographers constructed their authority examines the link between the conservative and the subversive in dictionaries and charts the shift of linguistic authority from grammarians to lexicographers.