29.882, Books: Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Considine

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:11:23
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Considine

 


Title: Small Dictionaries and Curiosity 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/small-dictionaries-and-curiosity-9780198785019 


Author: John Considine

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198785019 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before,
that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and
dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century.
These wordlists were collected by people who were curious about the unrecorded
or little-known languages they heard around them. Between them, they document
more than 40 language varieties, from a Basque-Icelandic pidgin of the North
Atlantic to the Kalmyk language of the lower Volga. 

The book gives an account of about 90 of these dictionaries and wordlists,
some of them single-page jottings and some of them full-sized printed books,
paying attention to their content and their physical form alike. It explores
the kinds of curiosity and imagination by which their makers were moved: the
lover of all languages hearing new voices in an inn; the speaker of a dying
language recording his linguistic memories; the patriot deploying his
lexicographical findings in the service of an emerging nation. It offers an
encounter with the diverse voices of the entirety of post-medieval Europe,
turning away from the people of the courts and universities whose language was
documented in big dictionaries to listen to people who did not speak the
languages of power: the people of remote places and dying communities; the
illiterate poor, settled or homeless; migrants from the edges of Europe and
beyond.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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