Emile Littre

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How I Made My Dictionary
Übersetzer: Gopalan, T. K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Writer, physician, philosopher and lexicographer, Émile Littré was commissioned by Hachette in 1841 to compile a new dictionary of the French language. The work, finally started in 1845, took nearly 30 years to complete, during which period France went through a great deal of turbulence.

Littré wrote this companion volume, a remarkable novella-length essay, Comment j'ai fait mon dictionnaire ('How I Made My Dictionary'), in 1880, which was translated and published for the first time in English in 1998 by a former Indian diplomat.

The translation, now brought back into print by Hachette India, has been commended by Dictionaries, a journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, for being 'accurate and conveying the original's lively, intense effect.

This book is a vital philological addition to the study of words and language, and an insight into the remarkable men who made such study possible by embarking on epic ventures of the literary kind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette India
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789351950059
• Artikelnr.: 44230576

Autorenporträt

Émile Littré (1 February 1801-2 June 1881) was a French lexicographer and philosopher, born in Paris and best known for his Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, commonly known as 'The Littré'. Littré started work on his great Dictionnaire de la langue Française in 1844, but it took him 30 years to finish it. In between, he participated in the July 1848 revolution, and in the repression of the extreme Republican Party in June 1849. Littré published Comment j'ai fait mon dictionnaire in 1880, just a year before his death.