The Rise of Dictionary Societies and Dictionary Journals

John S Ryan

The Rise of Dictionary Societies and Dictionary Journals

John S Ryan

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The 1970s have seen, along with the most productive decade of dictionary making and publishing in world history, the organisation of many congresses, collections, societies and journals concerned with (the practicalities of) lexicography - notably since the first Congress on Historical European Lexicography in Florence in 1971. At the Second (at Leiden) in 1977 there were formulated certain new 'definitions' for this subject area, viz.: (1) the 'lexicographer ... is a person whose learning is boundless and whose dictionary does not know the limits of time and space'; and (2) the 'dictionarist ... a person who produces a tangible, finished reference work'; and (3) the new comings together of the two as encounters where the visionaries (i.e. lexicographers) and practical editors (i.e. dictionarists) present proposals for new dictionaries and for refinements of old ones? In particular the lexicographer was seen as someone functioning 'between linguistics and society'.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AULLA XXI Proceedings and Papers
Editors	J Dunmore, J Muirhead
Place of Publication	Palmerston North, New Zealand
Publisher	Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
Pages	334-336
ISBN (Print)	090856497X
Publication status	Published - 1982
Event	AULLA Conference 1982: 21st Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association - Palmerston North, New Zealand Duration: 27 Jan 1982 → 3 Feb 1982

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Conference	AULLA Conference 1982: 21st Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
City	Palmerston North, New Zealand
Period	27/01/82 → 3/02/82

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English as a Second Language
English Language
Australian Literature (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)

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Ryan, JS 1982, The Rise of Dictionary Societies and Dictionary Journals. in J Dunmore & J Muirhead (eds), AULLA XXI Proceedings and Papers. Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Palmerston North, New Zealand, pp. 334-336, AULLA Conference 1982: 21st Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 27/01/82. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11189>

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