Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

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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Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of the History of English, Pembroke College, University of Oxford) – Oxford University Press