Chasing the Sun Dictionary Makers and the Dictio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224040103 ISBN 13: 9780224040105

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1996

First edition. A scholarly and immensely readable history of dictionaries and of some of the people who made them, from clay tablets to CD-ROMS, "putting a little flesh on lexicographical bones and navigating the political and linguistic debates that have shaped the tradition." The author is England's leading lexicographer of slang and jargon. Illustrations. xviii, 510 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo..

About the Author:

Jonathon Green is England's leading lexicographer of slang and jargon. Among his own dictionaries are the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemproary Slang, The Slang Thesaurus, Neologisms: New Words since 1960, Slang Down the Ages: The Historical Development of Slang and the Dictionary of Jargon. He also broadcasts regularly on language topics. Among his other books are three oral histories, many dictionaries of quotations and an encyclopedia of censorship.