Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Roderick McConchie is Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland

• Contents: Introduction; Part I General: Narrative and persuasion in early modern dictionaries and phrasebooks, John Considine; 'Dumb significants' and early modern English definition, Ian Lancashire; Doctors and dictionaries in 16th-century England, Roderick McConchie; English specialized lexicography in the late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Noel Edward Osselton; Bilingual dictionaries in Shakespeare's day, D.T. Starnes; The emerging role of English in the dictionaries of Renaissance Europe, Gabriele Stein; A footnote on the inkhorn controversy, James Sledd; Language helps for the Elizabethan tradesman, Louis B. Wright. Part II Latin-English: Definitions and first person pronoun involvement in Thomas Elyot's Dictionary, Gabriele Stein; The English of the 'Nomenclator', William A. Craigie; A note on 16th-century vernacular English, Don Cameron Allen; Thomas Thomas makes a dictionary, Allan Stevenson. Part III English-Latin: Richard Huloet as a recorder of the English lexicon, Gabriele Stein; Women and their world in Withal's Dictionary of 1553, Werner Hüllen; A note on the use of Renaissance dictionaries, James Sledd; John Baret's 'diligent bees', H. Rocke Robertson and Philip M. Teigen; Peter Levins' lexicographic approach, Roberta Facchinetti; The 'hard words' of Levins' dictionary, Maurizio Gotti. Part IV Familiar Vernacular: Law and early modern English lexicons, Ian Lancashire; Bilingual lexicography in the Renaissance: Palsgrave's English-French lexicon (1530), Douglas A. Kibbee; William Thomas: a forgotten clerk of the Privy Council, E.R. Adair; Claudius Hollyband and the earliest French-English dictionaries, Mark Eccles; Negotiating Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, David O. Frantz. Part V Unfamiliar Vernacular: The earliest list of Russian Lapp words, John Abercromby; Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English origins of Algonkian linguistics, Vivian Salmon; Mark Ridley (1560-1624): an Elizabethan Slavist, Gerald Stone; Russian medical terminology in Mark Ridley's dictionary, Vera Fedorovna Konnova; The achievement of William Salesbury, Glanmor Williams; Index.