Abstract
The genealogy of lexicography represents an ideal standpoint to reveal how sign-making practices may shape cultural objects. In this paper I discuss the revolution that lexicography undertook during the nineteenth century, showing why this process required the availability of a specific set of concepts, and then how it led up to the emergence of new social techniques, to the coming into being of a new kind of people, and to the introduction of new practices of sign-manipulation. Finally, I confront the historical development of lexicography with the project of the dictionary of Newspeak that Orwell envisioned in 1984.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 261-269 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Semiotica |
| Volume | 198 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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Keywords
- 1984
- cultural objects
- lexicography
- linguistic authority
- meaning
- semiotics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory
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Culture, power, dictionaries : What lexicography reveals about cultural objects. / Annoni, Marco.
In: Semiotica, Vol. 198, 2014, p. 261-269.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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