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Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture - and particularly how the human race learned to store information beyond the brain. It looks at how our species moved from being able to communicate only orally and to store information only in the head (rote memorisation) to the evolution of technologies for external reference: clay- and cunieform, reed-and-hieroglyph, bamboo-and-ideogram, parchment-and-alphabet, codices, books, pages, columns and so forth through the print revolution to the current electronic revolution. Along the way it looks at how this has affected languages like Latin, french, and English and people's attitudes to those languages - and to words and the listing of information about words. This intensely human subject is as compelling and important today as any account of kings, queens, wars and social upheaval.
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Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture - and particularly how the human race learned to store information beyond the brain.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 052130637X
- ISBN 13 9780521306379
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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Worlds of Reference : Language, Information, Education, and Lexicography from the Clay Tablet to the Computer
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Condition: Very Good. Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GB. Dimension: 247 x 174. Weight in Grams: 75. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. 1986. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KTS0038211
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Condition: Very Good. Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GB. Dimension: 247 x 174. Weight in Grams: 75. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. 1986. hardcover. . . . . Seller Inventory # KTS0038211
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Condition: Gut. IX; 230 S.; Illustr.; 26 cm. Gutes Ex. - Englisch. // McArthur brings together disciplines as diverse as linguistics and library science, anthropology and archaeology, philosophy and computing. And yet he manages to present a wide historical sweep (from the Cro-Magnon cave paintings to lexical data processing) that makes sense and fascinates. This is an ambitious undertaking, involving a conspectus of several fields and a new focus. - R R K Hartmann, Dictionary Research Centre . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : List of Illustrations and figures Acknowledgements Foreword andjorewarning - MIND, WORD AND WORLD - 1 Knowing, referring and recording: storing information beyond the brain - 2 Information and World 3: - in the beginning was the Word - THE ANCIENT WORLD - 3 Containers of knowledge: - the first reference technologies - 4 Systems for knowledge: - school and letter, book and library - 5 The taxonomic urge: - class, classic and classification - 6 Missionaries and monasteries: reference and reverence - THE MEDIEVAL WORLD - 7 Faith versus reason: summations of truth - 8 The elites of knowledge: universitas - THE EARLY MODERN WORLD - 9 All knowledge for all men: - the omne scibile and the printing press - 10 Theme versus alphabet: the roots of lexicography - 11 A blurring of languages: Latin and the vernaculars / (u.a.m.) ISBN 052130637X Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 800 Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 1090699
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Worlds of Reference : Language, Information, Education, and Lexicography from the Clay Tablet to the Computer
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Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer
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