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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made - Hardcover

Green, Jonathon

 
9780805034660: Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805034668 ISBN 13: 9780805034660
Verlag: Henry Holt & Co, 1996

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When James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, went to visit one of his most indefatigable contributors at what Murray assumed to be a country house address, he discovered that the elusive man was in fact an inmate of the Bradmoor asylum. Throughout time, word collectors have proven an unusual breed, and their stories fill Chasing the Sun, Jonathon Green's scholarly and immensely readable history of lexicography. Contrary to Samuel Johnson's famous description of the lexicographer as no more than a "harmless drudge," Green celebrates the "drudge triumphant"; as interpreter and arbiter of language itself, the dictionary maker here proves to be closer to deity than to drudge.

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Verlag
Henry Holt & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805034668
ISBN 13 
9780805034660
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Anzahl der Seiten
510
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