Keywords revisited: Personality and personal in the light of the third edition of the OED

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-53

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EID: 61249152942     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8705.2007.00747.x     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Raymond Williams, Keywords (rev. edn; London: Fontana: 1983)
2. For introductory material on OED3, see www.oed.com. On the third edition generally, see also John Simpson, Edmund Weiner and Philip Durkin, 'The Oxford English Dictionary Today', Transactions of the Philological Society, 102 (2004), 335-81, and see also further references given in John Simpson, 'The OED and Collaborative Research into the History of English', Anglia, 122 (2004), 185-208
3. Williams, Keywords, 233-4
4. For an overview of OED3's etymological work, see Philip Durkin, 'Root and Branch: Revising the Etymological Component of the OED', Transactions of the Philological Society, 97 (1999), 1-50
5. For further illustration of the same approach in Keywords, see also Alan Durant, 'Raymond Williams's Keywords: Investigating Meanings "offered, felt for, tested, confirmed, asserted, qualified, changed"', Critical Quarterly, 48:4 (Winter 2006), 1-26
6. For information on the Historical Thesaurus of English, a project based at the University of Glasgow, see http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESL1/EngLang/ thesaur/ homepage.htm
7. Jonathon Green, 'Slang by Dates', Critical Quarterly, 48:1 (Spring 2006), 99-104
8. For much more information on the BNC and its applications see http://www. natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
9. On the Oxford English Corpus, see http://www.askoxford.com/oec
10. On one such software tool, the Sketch Engine, see http://www. sketchengine. co.uk/