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This page provides downloadable PDF files of articles and other material divided into two sections: Associated with Examining the OED project and General. EOED subscribes to the Voluntary principles for article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks.
Associated with Examining the OED project
- Baigent, Elizabeth, Charlotte Brewer, and Vivienne Larminie, 2005. ‘Women and the Archive: The Representation of Gender in the Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford English Dictionary‘, Archives (Journal of the British Records Association), 30, 13-35. Preprint version
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2006. ‘Eighteenth-Century Quotation Searches in the Oxford English Dictionary‘, in Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX), ed. R. W. McConchie and others. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 41-50; available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hel-lex/2005/abstract1345.html [accessed 15 July 2019]
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2007a. ‘Reporting Eighteenth-Century Vocabulary in the Oxford English Dictionary‘, in Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective, ed. John Considine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 104-29. Accompanying appendix
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2009b. ‘The Oxford English Dictionary’s treatment of female-authored sources of the eighteenth century’, Current Issues in Late Modern English, ed. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Wim wan der Wurff. Bern: Peter Lang. Preprint version
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2009d. ‘The OED as “Literary Instrument”: Its Treatment Past and Present of the Vocabulary of Virginia Woolf’, Notes & Queries, 56, 430-44
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2010a. ‘The Use of Literary Quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary‘, The Review of English Studies, n.s. 61, 93-125
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2010b. ‘Prescriptivism and descriptivism in the first, second and third editions of OED‘, English Today (26): 24-33
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2011. “‘Happy Copiousness? OED’s Recording of Female Authors of the Eighteenth Century’, The Review of English Studies, 63, 86-117
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2012a. ‘Shakespeare, word-coining, and the OED‘. Shakespeare Survey, vol 64, ed. Peter Holland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 345-357
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2013a. ‘OED Online Re-launched: Distinguishing old scholarship from new’, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (34): 101-26
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2013b. ‘Words and Dictionaries: OED, MED and Chaucer’, in Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer, ed. Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. 215-261
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2015a. ‘”That reliance on the ordinary”: Jane Austen and the Oxford English Dictionary‘, The Review of English Studies (66): 744-765, with Supplementary material
General
- Baigent, Elizabeth, Charlotte Brewer, and Vivienne Larminie, 2005. ‘Women and the Archive: The Representation of Gender in the Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford English Dictionary‘, Archives (Journal of the British Records Association), 30, 13-35. Preprint version
- Brewer, Charlotte, 1991. Review of Schäfer, J. Early Modern Lexicography, Notes & Queries, 38, 362-5
- Brewer, Charlotte, 1993. ‘The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary‘, Review of English Studies, n.s. 44, 313-42
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2004. ‘The Electronification of the Oxford English Dictionary‘, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 25, 1-43. Postprint version posted with permission of the publisher
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2005. ‘Authority and Personality: Usage Labels in the Oxford English Dictionary‘, Transactions of the Philological Society, 103, 261-301. Free access from TPS website (via Brewer 2014) at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2005.00154.x (downloadable PDF)
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2007c. ‘Pronouncing the P: Prescription or Description in English 19th- and 20th-Century Dictionaries?’, Historiographia Linguistica, 34, 257-80
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2010b. ‘Prescriptivism and descriptivism in the first, second and third editions of OED‘, English Today 26, 24-33
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2012b. ‘”Goose-quill or Gander’s”? Female writers in Johnson’s Dictionary’, in Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum, ed. Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 120-39. Preprint version (with accompanying table)
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2013d. [Review] ‘Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary, Sarah Ogilvie’, International Journal of Lexicography 26, 509–514
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2014. ‘The Society’s Dictionary: Articles and Excerpts on the OED’, The Transactions of the Philological Society, virtual issue, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/1467968x/OED_Virtual_Issue.pdf [accessed 24 September 2018]
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2015c. Review of A History of the ‘Concise Oxford Dictionary‘ by M. A. Kamińska, Historiographia Linguistica, 42, 441–5. Author’s pre-print version
- Brewer, Charlotte, 2020. ‘When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary’, in Poetry and the Dictionary, ed. Andrew Blades and Piers Pennington. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 26-56. Author’s preprint version
- Fowler, Rowena, 1998. ‘Robert Browning in the Oxford English Dictionary: A New Approach’, Studies in Philology, 95.3 (Summer), 333-50
- Fowler, Rowena, 2002. ‘Virginia Woolf: Lexicographer’, English Language Notes, 39.3, 54-70. Postprint version
- Gilliver, Peter, 2002. ‘J. R. R. Tolkien and the OED‘, OED News (June); available at https://public.oed.com/blog/jrr-tolkien-and-the-oed/ [accessed 15 July 2019]
- Gilliver, Peter, 2004. ‘”That Brownest of Brown Studies”: The Work of the Editors and In-House Staff of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1903′, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 25, 44-64. Postprint version posted with permission of the author and publisher
- Hoffmann, Sebastian, 2004. ‘Using the OED Quotations Database as a Corpus – a Linguistic Appraisal’, ICAME Journal, 28, 17-30; available at http://clu.uni.no/icame/ij28/hoffmann.pdf [accessed 15 July 2019]
- Knowles, Elizabeth, 2000. ‘Making the OED: Readers and Editors. A Critical Survey’, in Mugglestone 2000a, pp. 22-39. By permission of Oxford University Press
- McDermott, Anne, 1996. ‘The Intertextual Web of Johnson’s Dictionary and the Concept of Authorship’, Computing in the Humanities Working Papers; available at https://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/chwp/mcdermot/ [accessed 15 July 2019]
- Raymond, Darrell R., 1987. Dispatches From the Front: The Prefaces to the Oxford English Dictionary. Updated version of the document originally published by the UW Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary (Waterloo, Ontario) is available as a PDF at http://www.darrellraymond.com/prefaces [accessed 15 July 2019]
- Simpson, John, 2004a. ‘The OED and Collaborative Research into the History of English’, Anglia, 122, 185-208. Preprint version posted with permission of the author and publisher
- Simpson, John, Edmund Weiner, and Philip Durkin, 2004b. ‘The Oxford English Dictionary Today’, Transactions of the Philological Society, 102, 335-81. Postprint version posted with permission of the authors and Blackwell Publishing
- Simpson, John, 2004c. ‘Will the Oxford English Dictionary be more “European” after its first comprehensive revision since its first edition of 1884-1928?’, Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 29: 59-74. Posted with permission of the author and publisher
- Simpson, John, 2008. ‘Why is the OED so small?’, in Serge Vanvolsem and Laura Lepschy, eds., Nell’officina del dizionario: Atti del Convegno Internazionale organizzato dall’Istituto di Cultura Lussemburgo, Band 19: Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik, ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 113-29. Posted with permission of the author and publisher
Last updated on 2 September 2020