This is a work of enormously broad scholarship, which brings together a range of quite diverse elements into a coherent narrative which makes for absorbing and often surprisingly entertaining reading. All in all this is a rich and multifaceted book, and one which will appeal to a variety of audiences. |s David Cram, International Journal of Lexicography |d 07/02/2001

A - Opening the Topic 1. The onomasiological approach 2. On establishing a tradition B - The English Tradition of Onomasiology 3. Hermeneumata, Latin-English glosses and nominales 4. Colloquies, wordbooks, and dialogues for teaching and learning foreign languages 5. Treatises on terminology 6. John Withals' dictionary for young boys (1553) 7. James Howell's dictionary for the genteel (1660) 8. John Wilkins' comprehensive thesaurus of English (1668) C - The European Scene 9. Multilingual dictionaries and nomenclators 10. The case of Johannes Amos Comenius D - Reflections on the Topic 11. Towards mental lexicography Contributors

Werner Hullen , Professor Emeritus, University of Essen, and President, The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas

`This is a work of enormously broad scholarship, which brings together a range of quite diverse elements into a coherent narrative which makes for absorbing and often surprisingly entertaining reading.' David Cram, International Journal of Lexicography |d 07/02/2001