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Word Studies in the Renaissance

By Gabriele Stein

Word Studies in the Renaissance

By Gabriele Stein

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The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of a word and to explain and transpose it into another language; their assessment of different linguistic and cultural expressions, and their morphological analyses; and their efforts to find ways of structuring and presenting lexical information. Gabriele Stein explores the influence of the works by Ambrogio Calepino, Robert Estienne, Hadrianus Junius, and Conrad Gesner, and the extent to which bi- and multilingual dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character; she also provides the first in-depth and richly-illustrated discussion of the use of typographical resources to present the structure of lexical information.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2017-11-28
Publication Date:
2017-11-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198807376
ISBN13:
9780198807377
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
543 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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