圖書標籤: English linguistics SimonWinchester 英國 lexicography 語言學/習 歷史 文藝
发表于2024-11-05
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From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful"
schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert
Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly
tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated
iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it--and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and
ultimate redemption.
The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project--a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the
world's unrivalled uber-dictionary.
西濛•溫切斯特(Simon Winchester,中文名文思淼),英國著名作傢、記者。1944年生,1966年牛津大學地質係畢業後,擔任《衛報》(Guardian)及《星期日泰晤士報》(Sunday Times)的海外特派員。為《紐約時報》、《史密森學會月刊》(Smithsonian)、《觀察傢》(Spectator)、《國傢地理雜誌》、BBC等媒體撰稿。主要作品有:《OED的故事》(The Meaning of Everything)、《世界邊緣的裂縫》(A Crack in the Edge of the World)、《喀拉喀托火山爆發記》(Krakatoa)、《改變世界的地圖》(The Map That Changed the World),以及《世界中央的河流》(The River at the Center of the World)、《大英帝國邊境》(Outposts)等。目前最新作品是《熱愛中國的人:李約瑟傳》(The Man Who Loved China)。
Before reading this book, I have never imagined writing a dictionary would be such a thing that requires "endless" effort. And also, there is truly no limitation for the capacity of human intelligence and persistence.
評分Before reading this book, I have never imagined writing a dictionary would be such a thing that requires "endless" effort. And also, there is truly no limitation for the capacity of human intelligence and persistence.
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評分教授與瘋子
評分Before reading this book, I have never imagined writing a dictionary would be such a thing that requires "endless" effort. And also, there is truly no limitation for the capacity of human intelligence and persistence.
这部有史以来最大规模文字工程的奋斗史,同时揭示了法国启蒙运动时期第一部大百科全书,维基百科以及LINUX操作系统,开源软件工程等等项目成功的秘密,这些工程项目的共同特征就是无数人默默无闻的,不求回报的奉献做基础,而少数几个不世出的天才人物居中策应,从精神上,道义...
評分这部有史以来最大规模文字工程的奋斗史,同时揭示了法国启蒙运动时期第一部大百科全书,维基百科以及LINUX操作系统,开源软件工程等等项目成功的秘密,这些工程项目的共同特征就是无数人默默无闻的,不求回报的奉献做基础,而少数几个不世出的天才人物居中策应,从精神上,道义...
評分这部有史以来最大规模文字工程的奋斗史,同时揭示了法国启蒙运动时期第一部大百科全书,维基百科以及LINUX操作系统,开源软件工程等等项目成功的秘密,这些工程项目的共同特征就是无数人默默无闻的,不求回报的奉献做基础,而少数几个不世出的天才人物居中策应,从精神上,道义...
評分这部有史以来最大规模文字工程的奋斗史,同时揭示了法国启蒙运动时期第一部大百科全书,维基百科以及LINUX操作系统,开源软件工程等等项目成功的秘密,这些工程项目的共同特征就是无数人默默无闻的,不求回报的奉献做基础,而少数几个不世出的天才人物居中策应,从精神上,道义...
評分翻译杨传纬系北师院长,易懂。 出版学适合思考话题: 1.为何OED编写中,有如此多的志愿者参与 2.字典对一个国家的意义 3.牛津大家是如何处理OED叫好不叫座的问题的
The Meaning of Everything pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024