《英国英语词典学的社会语言学史》从社会语言学和词典学的角度追溯了英国英语词典从最早的起源到20世纪末的演变过程。它试图突破词典本体论范式的局限，将英国英语词典的制作和研究置于更广泛的社会文化观察背景下，从而将英语词典学的发展与英语的变化、英语语言学的成就、社会和文化的进步以及科技的进步联系起来。
它生动、连贯、完整地展示了英语词典编纂如何从原型发展到规定性、历史性、描述性，最后发展到认知模式，如何与一个国家的文化发展进程和词典编纂文化的历史增长相互关联，以及英语词典学如何通过继承、创新和自我完善从英国英语传播到其他主要地区变体。
本书将引起英语词典学、英语语言学和世界英语词典学的学生和学者的兴趣。
A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography
A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It attempts to break out of the limits of the dictionary-ontology paradigm and set British English dictionary-making and research against a broader background of socio-cultural observations, thus relating the development of English lexicography to changes in English, accomplishments in English linguistics, social and cultural progress, and advances in science and technology.
It unfolds a vivid, coherent and complete picture of how English dictionary-making develops from its archetype to the prescriptive, the historical, the descriptive and finally to the cognitive model, how it interrelates to the course of the development of a nation’s culture and the historical growth of its lexicographical culture, as well as how English lexicography spreads from British English to other major regional varieties through inheritance, innovation and self-perfection.
This volume will be of interest to students and academics of English lexicography, English linguistics and world English lexicography.
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