International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology

ISHLL is a society of scholars interested in the history of the dictionary, making historical dictionaries, and historical lexicology. Membership is currently free.

ISHLL was established as a result of the first International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, which took place in Leicester in 2002. The proceedings, Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research, edited by Julie Coleman and Anne McDermott, were published by Niemeyer in 2004. These were followed by proceedings from Gargnano del Garda, near Brescia, Italy in 2004: Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective, edited by John Considine and Giovanni Iamartino and from Leiden in 2006: Yesterday's Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography, edited by Marijke Mooijaart and Marijke van der Wal.

The fourth ICHLL was in Edmonton, Canada in June 2008, and the fifth will be at St. Anne's College, Oxford , from the 16th to the 18th of June, 2010.

Papers are now invited for the fifth International Conference for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, to be held at St Anne’s College Oxford 16-18 June 2010. Plenary speakers will be Michael Adams (‘World War II, Anglo-American Lexicography, and the Dictionary of American English’), Ulrike Hass (‘In search of the European dimension of lexicography’ and John Simpson (‘OED3 in the making’). The conference will mark the tenth anniversary of OED Online, i.e. the major revision of the OED currently underway in Oxford. Papers relating to dictionaries and dictionary-making are particularly welcome, but as with past conferences we hope to attract papers on a broad range of topics in lexicography and lexicology.

Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should be sent to ichll@herald.ox.ac.uk by 30 November 2009. More information will be posted on the conference website, in due course.

If you would like to receive further information about the 5th ICHLL, please subscribe to the ISHLL mailing list. Subscribers to the mailing list may also receive information about other relevant events and publications. If you have any notices that you would like to send to this mailing list, please email them to the chair of the committee, Julie Coleman (jmc21@le.ac.uk).

ISHLL also has an email discussion group. If you would like to contribute to the discussion of the history of the dictionary, making historical dictionaries, and historical lexicography, please subscribe to the discussion group.

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