English Lexicography from British Tradition to World Englishes

This book discusses how lexicographies of core native-speaker varieties of English (other than British) originate and develop from their British roots to modern forms. It describes their interrelation to socio-cultural settings, as well as their reformation and divergences through innovation and self-expansion.

This book unfolds chronologically, comprehensively and coherently, for the first time and under one cover, a spectacular landscape of how lexicographies of core native-speaker varieties of English (other than British English) originate and develop, directly or indirectly, from their British roots to current shapes and prosperity, tracing their evolutional links with and inheritance from British (occasionally American) lexicographical tradition, their interrelation to socio-cultural settings, as well as their reformation and divergences through innovation and self-expansion. This pioneering work gives special focus to many unknown aspects and areas of world English lexicography and concludes with visions, prospects and possible transformations of its development in the 21st century. It is the first attempt to go beyond the traditional confines of ontological studies in the history of lexicography, integrating sociolinguistic and lexicographical approaches and setting the diachronic explorations of world English lexicography against the broad background of socio-cultural observations. It is the most updated and wide-ranging on the subject treated within a unified framework of English dictionary paradigms going from its archetype to the prescriptive, to the historical, to the descriptive and to the cognitive model.

Autorentext

Yong Heming is currently a professor at Guangdong University of Finance, with a doctoral degree from Macquarie University. His academic interests include diachronic lexicography, communicative lexicography and translation studies. He has published several books and his research findings have been reviewed in prestigious journals in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Holland, Australia as well as China.

Inhalt

British Lexicographical Tradition and the Development of World English Lexicography - American English Lexicography and Its Inheritance and Reformation of British Lexicographical Tradition - British Lexicographical Tradition and the Development of Australian English Lexicography - British and American Lexicographical Tradition and the Making of Canadian English Dictionaries - British Lexicographical Tradition in the Shaping of New Zealand English Lexicography - The Extending Influence of British Lexicographical Tradition and the Shaping of South African English Lexicography - Prospects for the Development of World English Lexicography - Bibliography - Index.