辞典の起源から、昨今の電子化されたオンラインコンテンツへの進展を踏まえつつ、辞典とはどのように編纂されているのかを詳らかにします。言葉は社会を反映するものであるがゆえ、辞書は収集された言葉が並び、語意が目録化されているだけではなく、それを編んだ人の社会的・文化的背景をも映し出します。辞典のそうした文化資源的価値についても検討します。
Examines the h ... 続きを読む
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Provides an overview of our Solar System and its origins, n ... 続きを読む
This book is a comprehensive guide for practitioners covering all aspects of competition litigation in the UK. It draws on the vast combined experience in the field of the barristers at Brick Court Ch ... 続きを読む
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.'
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook ... 続きを読む
Over a hundred years have passed since Charles Creighton's A History of Epidemics in Britain was published. Then, epidemics of infectious diseases accounted for a third of all deaths in the British Is ... 続きを読む
I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.'
Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfas ... 続きを読む
Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665 which continues to exert ... 続きを読む
'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Fo ... 続きを読む