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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974768
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Reverend George William Clarke (1849–1919), a China Inland Mission missionary, is commemorated by his organization as an "unswerving servant" (OMF-International 2020). He devoted his forty-four years in China (1875–1919) to evangelization in places where the Gospel had not reached, mainly Henan Province, Guiyang (Guizhou Province), and Dali (Yunnan Province). But few are aware that he had begun to take notice of, and chronicled, the spread of Islam in the interior since at least the 1880s.1 His writings document quite an early period in Western interest of China's Muslim communities.2 The earliest record Reverend Clarke produced on Islam in China is his free translation of Xilai zongpu 西來宗譜 (A Genealogy of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540/image/coversmallLexiconizing Arabic and Knowledge Production of Chinese Muslims, the Mid-Ming—1930s2025-11-19text/htmlen-USLexiconizing Arabic and Knowledge Production of Chinese Muslims, the Mid-Ming—1930s2025-11-192025TWOProject MUSE®1730212026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-19Wittgenstein's Dictionary: The Philosopher and the Linguistic Autonomy of Standard Austrian German
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974769
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"In dieser Not entschloss ich mich dazu, meinen Schülern […] ein Wörterbuch zu diktieren"1The present paper investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein's Wörterbuch für Volks- und Bürgerschulen [Dictionary for Primary- and Elementary Schools], which was published in April 1926.2 Wittgenstein first dictated this dictionary to his grade 4 pupils between 1922 and 1924 in the Lower Austrian town of Puchberg am Schneeberg, before he sat down to prepare a version for publication (Hübner 1977, viii). Besides Wittgenstein's 1922 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (and its 1921 original German version entitled Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung), the dictionary is one of only two monographs that Wittgenstein published in his lifetime
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540/image/coversmallWittgenstein's Dictionary: The Philosopher and the Linguistic Autonomy of Standard Austrian German2025-11-19text/htmlen-USWittgenstein's Dictionary: The Philosopher and the Linguistic Autonomy of Standard Austrian German2025-11-192025TWOProject MUSE®1533012026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-19Limitations of Historical Dictionaries: Hooker as a Case Study
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974770
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Lexicographic research into the etymology and etiology of words and phrases frequently focuses on finding, recording, and publishing examples that consist of brief snippets of a sentence or two at most. While this practice is an essential backbone to historical lexicography, it is often insufficient to fully understand the origin and sociolinguistic development of the lexeme in question and can even mislead the lexicographer drafting the definitions (Hawke 2015, 179–80). The snippets tend to divorce the term from its full context, not only the textual context in which it appears but also the context of the discourse: who said it, the intended audience, and its wider social framework. Such context, while perhaps not
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540/image/coversmallLimitations of Historical Dictionaries: Hooker as a Case Study2025-11-19text/htmlen-USLimitations of Historical Dictionaries: Hooker as a Case Study2025-11-192025TWOProject MUSE®1251522026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-19How to Balance the Lack of a Representative Corpus for Defining the Macrostructure of a Georgian–English Learner's Dictionary
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974771
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A period of worldwide interest in learning English as a foreign language preceded the emergence of learner's lexicography as a genre. Beginning in the 1920s, primarily for pedagogical purposes, experts started compiling word lists, the so-called "controlled vocabularies" to facilitate teaching of the English language.In 1927, the Tokyo Research Institute for English Language Teaching, headed by Harold Palmer, began work on English vocabulary (Cowie 1999, 15). The aim was to identify words that played an important role in everyday language use. Different methods were applied to compile lists of 1,000–2,000 words that would help learners in their daily communication. Two main approaches were identified: the objective
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540/image/coversmallHow to Balance the Lack of a Representative Corpus for Defining the Macrostructure of a Georgian–English Learner's Dictionary2025-11-19text/htmlen-USHow to Balance the Lack of a Representative Corpus for Defining the Macrostructure of a Georgian–English Learner's Dictionary2025-11-192025TWOProject MUSE®860192026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-19Teaching Research Methods and Linguistics Concepts through OED Antedating
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974772
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Today's students face a paradox: despite unprecedented access to digital text collections and search tools, many arrive in our classrooms with limited understanding of dictionaries and meager digital research skills. With the advent of Google, and now Artificial Intelligence, it may not occur to students that dictionaries contain information that ChatGPT et al. cannot provide. Students tend to be unpracticed in the careful reading and assessment required to carry out historical word research, and they do not generally appreciate how new facts about language await discovery.This article describes an undergraduate course that addresses these challenges through antedating research: the practice of finding earlier
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540/image/coversmallTeaching Research Methods and Linguistics Concepts through OED Antedating2025-11-19text/htmlen-USTeaching Research Methods and Linguistics Concepts through OED Antedating2025-11-192025TWOProject MUSE®497462026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-19The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary ed. by Edward Finegan and Michael Adams (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974773
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Most definitions of handbook include the intention of guidance, instruction, or reference as necessary to the meaning of the term, sometimes offering manual as a synonym. An unabridged dictionary is required to find a definition of handbook in the academic sense: "a scholarly book on a specific subject, often consisting of separate essays or articles" (Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary). More specifically, on the first verso of the Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary (CHD), a Cambridge Handbook in Language and Linguistics is described by the series' anonymous editors as "provid[ing] a complete state-of-the-field overview of a major sub-discipline within language study and research."Against the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540/image/coversmallThe Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary ed. by Edward Finegan and Michael Adams (review)2025-11-19text/htmlen-USThe Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary ed. by Edward Finegan and Michael Adams (review)2025-11-192025TWOProject MUSE®208262026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-19Notes on Contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974774
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Stefan Dollinger is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His monographs include Creating Canadian English (Cambridge University Press, 2019), The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and Other Germanic Standard Varieties (Routledge, 2019), and (in German) Austrian German or German in Austria? Identities in the 21st Century (new academic press, 2021, 3rd edn). Recently, he has shed new light on the Nazi involvement and pan-German convictions of Eberhard Kranzmayer and their long-term effects on Austrian disciplinary history. He is chief editor of the third edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (UBC, 2025;
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974775
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This issue of Dictionaries presents four fresh research articles, one article on lexicographical pedagogy, and one book review.The issue opens with Jie Wang's contribution to the history of bilingual lexicography and of Islam in China,"Lexiconizing Arabic and Knowledge Production of Chinese Muslims, the Mid-Ming–1930s." Wang explores the development of Arabic–Chinese lexicography from subject lexicons related to scripture, used for theological discourse and madrasa education, to broader dictionaries that facilitated greater engagement with global theological discussions, thus playing a central role in the modernization of Chinese Muslim societies and religious education in the early twentieth century.Next, Stefan
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