Peter Sokolowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 10753645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sokolowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sokolowski |
| SIGNATURE | SOKOŁOWSKI P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conversations on Dictionaries
How did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific language? Who was involved in that origin story? How have they evolved over time? What is the tension between scholarly and commercial, and between prescriptive and descriptive, dictionaries? What is the politics behind each dictionary? And what is the connection between dictionaries and nation-building? This fascinating book has the answers. It brings together a colle…
French
This conversation between Ilan Stavans and Marie-Hélène Drivaud with Peter Sokolowski is about how the emergence of dictionaries of European vernacular languages mirrors the increased literary and bureaucratic use of those languages, starting in Italy. Italian literary production, the founding of the Accademia della Crusca, and the comprehensive dictionary of classical Latin by the Italian monk Ambrogino Calepino provided examples for writers and…
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Conversations on Dictionaries
How did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific language? Who was involved in that origin story? How have they evolved over time? What is the tension between scholarly and commercial, and between prescriptive and descriptive, dictionaries? What is the politics behind each dictionary? And what is the connection between dictionaries and nation-building? This fascinating book has the answers. It brings together a colle…
French
This conversation between Ilan Stavans and Marie-Hélène Drivaud with Peter Sokolowski is about how the emergence of dictionaries of European vernacular languages mirrors the increased literary and bureaucratic use of those languages, starting in Italy. Italian literary production, the founding of the Accademia della Crusca, and the comprehensive dictionary of classical Latin by the Italian monk Ambrogino Calepino provided examples for writers and…
Conversation (2 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Bureaucracy (1 work) · Connection (principal bundle) (1 work) · Czech (1 work) · Grammar (1 work) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (1 work) · Indigenous (1 work) · Lexicography (1 work)