Here's a draft of the table of contents for this year's volume of Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. The journal has just gone to the printers and will be in the mailboxes of members in a couple of months. It also will be available on Project Muse. The Editor of Dictionaries is Elizabeth Knowles and the Book Review Editor is Wendalyn Nichols.
Table of Contents
Articles
“Academic Hooliganism” or “False Gold”?: The Reception of Baudouin de Courtenay’s Russian Dictionary by Donna M. T. Cr. Farina and George Durman
Elisha Coles in Context by John Considine
Cullers of Words: Writing the Dictionary of Newfoundland English by Jeff A. Webb
Issues and Challenges for a Modern English-Arabic Dictionary by Radia Benzehra
That Most Ill-Defined Book: Problems with Labeling the Dictionary in Educated Writing by Ammon Shea
“Her Word had no Weight”: Jane Austen as a lexical test case for OED by R. M. McConchie
Reference Works in Progress
Dawgspeak!: The Slanguage Dictionary of the University of Georgia by Don R. McCreary
DARE—On Beyond Zydeco by George H. Goebel
Revising The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles: A Progress Report, 2006—(April 2012) by Stefan Dollinger, Laurel Brinton, and Margery Fee
A grammar-driven bilingual digital dictionary for Cayuga (Iroquoian) by Carrie Dyck and Ranjeet Kumar
Boswell’s Scottish Dictionary Update by Susan Rennie
Book Reviews
Green’s Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green; reviewed by Michael Adams
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl–Z, edited by Joan Houston Hall; reviewed by Frank Abate
Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage, Third Edition by Bryan A. Garner; reviewed by James E. Clapp
“Cunning passages, contrived corridors”: Unexpected essays in the history of lexicography by Michael Adams; reviewed by Edward Finegan
Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions by James E. Clapp; reviewed by Rebecca Shapiro
From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages, edited by Michael Adams; reviewed by Yin Yin Lu
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