This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work. Using theoretical, historical and empirical analyses, Phil Benson shows how English dictionaries have filtered knowledge through predominantly Anglo-American perspectives. The book includes a major case study of the most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its treatment of China.
| ISBN: | 9780415758239 |
| Publication date: | 10th April 2014 |
| Author: | Phil Benson |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics |
| Genres: |
Dictionaries Anthropology |