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Researching the beginnings of bilingual Polish-English / English-Polish lexicography: Polyglot dictionaries (part 2)

Publication date: 30.06.2014

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2014, Volume 131, Issue 2, pp. 193 - 212

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.14.010.2018

Authors

Mirosława Podhajecka
The University of Opole
pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-071X Orcid
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Researching the beginnings of bilingual Polish-English / English-Polish lexicography: Polyglot dictionaries (part 2)

Abstract

The present paper is the second of two papers investigating polyglot dictionaries which comprised Polish and English wordlists. It rests on the assumption that, by providing the earliest documentation material for Polish and English respectively, the polyglots can be regarded as historical antecedents of bilingual dictionaries. While the first paper focused on three Renaissance works of reference, including Calepino’s eleven-language edition, this one concentrates on two relatively little known endeavours of the Enlightenment: Christoph Warmer’s Gazophylacium decem linguarum Europaearum … (1691) and Peter Simon Pallas’ Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa … (1787–1789). The bilingual material they embrace has been analysed and illustrated with examples in order to shed new light on the two polyglots, which are additionally traced back to their sources.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2014, Volume 131, Issue 2, pp. 193 - 212

Article type: Original article

Titles:

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Researching the beginnings of bilingual Polish-English / English-Polish lexicography: Polyglot dictionaries (part 2)

English:

Researching the beginnings of bilingual Polish-English / English-Polish lexicography: Polyglot dictionaries (part 2)

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-071X

Mirosława Podhajecka
The University of Opole
pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-071X Orcid
All publications →

The University of Opole
pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Poland

Published at: 30.06.2014

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