Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Lynda Mugglestone

Oxford University Press

2011

140 páginas

4h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780199573790

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.