Tracing Inspiration In Proverbial Material
From The Royal Dictionary (1699 & 1729) Of Abel Boyer To The English-Irish Dictionary (1732) Of Begley And McCurtin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12204100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcas Mac Coinnigh (0000-0002-7778-1584, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-57 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Lexicography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3846 • E-ISSN: 1477-4577 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ijl/ecs012 |
| OpenAlex | W2320865215 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This metalexicographic study examines the relationship between the proverbial material in The English-Irish Dictionary (1732) of Begley and McCurtin, Abel Boyer’s The Royal Dictionary (First edition 1699, second edition 1729), and Nathaniel Bailey’s An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721). It will show, for the first time, that both the English macrostructure and microstructure of the proverbial entries in Begley and McCurtin (1732) were reproduced directly from Boyer’s dictionary and, in spite of claims to the contrary, the impact of Bailey’s (1721) dictionary was negligible. Furthermore, empirical data gleaned from a comparative linguistic analysis of the various editions of The Royal Dictionary prior to 1732, will prove that it was the second official edition (1729) that was used as the framework for The English-Irish Dictionary. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the nature of the proverbial entries will also outline the various translation strategies that were used to compose the Irish material— particularly literal translation—and show that there are extremely high-levels of borrowings from Boyer (1729), both in terms of the English entries under the lemma, and the French entries in the comment
Art · Bilingual dictionary · Irish · Lemma (botany · Linguistics · Literal (mathematical logic · Literal translation · Literature · Source text · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Classics · History · Philosophy
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New Perspectives on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century European Lexicography
Usage Labels in The Royal Dictionary (1699) by Abel Boyer
Influence in Lexicography
From the Great French Dictionary (1688
From the Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francoise, dedie au Roy (1694) to the Royal Dictionary (1699) of Abel Boyer
Encoding Ireland
| Highly cited | No |
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