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History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014
Edited by Carlos Assunção, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 126] 2016
► pp. 31–42

The history of the concept of lexicography

A problem for historians of pre-modern lexicography is that “lexicography” and indeed “dictionary” were not clearly defined categories for pre-modern scholars. This paper discusses the dictionary-like texts of medieval Latin Christendom; examines the emergence of “dictionary” as an actor’s category in western Europe in the sixteenth century and the emergence of “lexicography” as an actor’s category in the eighteenth; and comments briefly on the applicability of these concepts to texts created in other scholarly traditions.

Published online: 17 August 2016
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