By Roberta Facchinetti
Dictionaries are mines whose word-gems encapsulate centuries of language background and cultural traditions; they're store-houses of meanings and makes use of, lamp genies to be let loose on the very second readers set their eyes on their entries. This e-book is an try to loose such lamp genies, through discussing the position of dictionaries within the identity and expression of cultural elements in language, with detailed connection with English. As such, its 11 chapters were prepared to target normal, genre-specific, monolingual and bilingual lexicography, either from a diachronic and a synchronic viewpoint. The ebook should be of use to lexicographers and lexicologists, in addition to to corpus linguists, old and modern English students, scholars of English, and anyone attracted to the juice of culture(s) that may be fruitfully extracted from dictionary entries
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It is certain that the art of of pottery, as well in England as in Holland and France, has, within these twenty years, arrived to great perfection. And, if ever this, or any other European nation should advance in the manufacture of China ware, to the degree of perfection that the Eastern countries have done, I am inclinable to think it must depend rather upon Elisabetta Lonati art than on the mere productions of nature; for, although, in the Eastern countries there may be earths of a quality for the purpose, superior to such as may have yet been discovered in any other parts of the world, yet the extraordinary beauty of their earth, we apprehend, is owing chiefly to art: and, if once the Europeans obtain that art, we believe there are earths enough, even in England, from which as good porcelain may be made, as from any that it may come from the East-Indies, or from Dresden, and that it may come as cheap too, as some of our pottery-war.
Some concluding remarks will be offered in Section 4. 1 The date 1810 followed by the question mark is the date reported in the British Library Catalogue. For the dates of subsequent editions see Nuccorini 2008. 36 Phraseology in Time 2. Background Baretti’s EP (see Appendix for a sample page) and Duverger’s C (see Appendix for a sample page) differ in many formal and substantial aspects, but they are both bilingual (the former includes Italian and English, the latter English and French) and share similar backgrounds and objectives, which will be illustrated in the following paragraphs.
To be employed about it; but it is not always observed”. However, the presence of footnotes (see Appendix for an example), which are not excessively numerous but extremely appropriate, constitute a salient characteristic of the dictionary; they often perform the same function as language notes in modern pedagogic lexicography. It is in the footnotes that the links between phraseology, use and culture-boundedness become evident at different levels. The word “comparison”, used in the title of the dictionary with reference to its bilingual structure is also further enhanced in most footnotes.