Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
by Mugglestone, Lynda
Series: Very Short Introductions Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: xvi,140 Pages 17x11 cm | PB ISBN:9780199573790.
Subject(s):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Year: 2011
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Includes Index and Illustrations.
Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.
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