| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 410 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : the initial hypothesis, outline of the book -- 2. Peter Mark Roget : facts and ideas, Roget's curriculum vitae, scientist and lexicographer, a skeleton history of the Thesaurus from 1852 to 1899, early criticism -- 3. Words, words, words : Hamlet's repartee, polysemy and homonymy, synonymy, semantic fields, semantic features, semantic models, reverse theories of synonymy, Saussure on the linguistic sign -- 4. Synonymy : early statements and practices : an ordering grid, some classical treatments of synonymy, Isidore of Seville's differentiae, poetic synonyms in Beowulf, Erasmus' De copia verborum, Shakespeare's Love's labour's lost, Archbishop Trench on synonymy and morality -- 5. The beginnings of practical synonymy : hard-word dictionaries, synonymy in philosophy and lexicographical practice -- 6. The emergence of the English synonym dictionary : instigation from abroad : Abbe Gabriel Girard, Girard's followers on the continent, Girard's followers in Britain, the English synonym dictionary appears, Roget and the English synonym dictionary -- 7. The topical tradition in English lexicography : onomasiology between 800 and 1700, the classification of knowledge, onomasiological lexicography between 1700 and 1852 -- 8. Roget's Thesaurus : a topical dictionary of synonyms : on analysing Roget's Thesaurus, the 'introduction', the macrostructure, the microstructure, pragmatic structures, semantic fields, semantic features, frames, schemata, and scripts -- Appendix : 'plan of classification' and 'tabular synopsis' of Roget's Thesaurus |
| Summary |
First published in 1852, 'Roget's Thesaurus' has come to be one of the most famous and widely used reference works in the world. This book exposes the conceptual framework behind the thesaurus and shows how it can be interpreted as a predecessor of linguistic semantics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-404) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869. Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
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| SUBJECT |
Thesaurus of English words and phrases (Roget, Peter Mark) fast (OCoLC)fst01361449 |
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English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.
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English language -- Lexicography.
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English language -- Semantics.
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Thesauri -- Publishing
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Subject headings -- Publishers and publishing.
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REFERENCE.
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Subject headings -- Publishers and publishing.
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English language -- Lexicography.
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English language -- Semantics.
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English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.
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Thesaurus of English words and phrases (Roget)
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Engels.
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Synoniemen.
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Woordenboeken.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423788761 |
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9781423788768 |
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9786610907694 |
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6610907692 |
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9780199254729 |
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0199254729 |
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