Empire of words : the reign of the OED / John Willinsky.
"Willinsky analyzes the favored citation records from the three editorial periods of the OED's compilation: the Victorian, imperial first edition; the modern supplement; and the contemporary second edition composed on an electronic data base. He reveals shifts in linguistic authority: the...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- At Trench's Suggestion, 1858-1878
- Murray's Editorship, 1879-1915
- Shakespeare's Dictionary
- Citing The Shrew
- A Victorian Canon : The Authors
- A Victorian Canon : The Titles
- A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 1957-1986
- Modern Citation
- The Second Edition, 1984-1989
- The Sense of Omission
- A Source of Authority.