30.4758, Books: The Whole World in a Book: Ogilvie, Safran (eds.)

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Subject: 30.4758, Books: The Whole World in a Book: Ogilvie, Safran (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:28:24
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: The Whole World in a Book: Ogilvie, Safran (eds.)

 


Title: The Whole World in a Book 
Subtitle: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-whole-world-in-a-book-9780190913199?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Sarah Ogilvie
Editor: Gabriella Safran

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190913199 Pages: 358 Price: U.S. $ 34.95


Abstract:

Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to
contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias.
Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper
classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. More than
other multi-volume nineteenth-century collections, the dictionaries, or their
descendants of the same name, remain with us in the twenty-first century.
Online or on paper, people still consult Oxford for British English, Webster
for American, Grimm for German, Littré for French, Dahl for Russian. Even in
spaces whose literary languages already had long philological and
lexicographic traditions-Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin-the
burgeoning imperialisms and nationalisms of the nineteenth century generated
new dictionaries.

The Whole World in a Book explores a period in which globalization,
industrialization, and social mobility were changing language in unimaginable
ways. Newly automated technologies and systems of communication expanded the
international reach of dictionaries, while rising literacy rates, book
consumption, and advertising led to their unprecedented popularization.
Dictionaries in the nineteenth century became more than dictionaries: they
were battlefields between prestige languages and lower-status dialects;
national icons celebrating the language and literature of the nation-state;
and sites of innovative authorship where middle and lower classes, volunteers,
women, colonial subjects, the deaf, and missionaries joined the ranks of
educated white men in defining how people communicated and understood the
world around them.

In this volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars investigate these
lexicographers asking how the world within which they lived supported their
projects? What did language itself mean for them? What goals did they try to
accomplish in their dictionaries?
 



Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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