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Anatoly
Liberman
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2022
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Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms
Minneapolis
:
University of Minnesota Press
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xi + 322
pages. ISBN 978-1-5179-1412-7 paperback. Price 22.95 USD.
M Lynne Murphy University of Sussex , United Kingdom m.l.murphy@sussex.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
International Journal of Lexicography, ecae006, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecae006
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13 April 2024
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M Lynne Murphy, Anatoly Liberman. 2022. Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms, International Journal of Lexicography, 2024;, ecae006, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecae006
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What to do, lexicographically, with English idioms? The category is huge, diverse, variable, difficult to categorise, and a pain in the neck to organise. I suppose what one does is give the problem to Anatoly Liberman. The title and subtitle of his new book, Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms, was no doubt chosen to appeal to a general audience, but it misleads. This is not simply a dictionary of what English idioms mean (as would be helpful to an English learner). It is a dictionary of idiom history. In her overview of etymological dictionaries, Éva Buchi noted this gap in coverage: ‘As for idioms, they often completely lack any etymological analysis, the worst being pragmatemes like English oh, boy!’ (2016: 344). The Oxford English Dictionary reveals that lexicographic bias against idioms, defining etymology as ‘the branch of linguistics which deals with determining the origins of words’ [emphasis added]. But Buchi goes on to identify Liberman’s Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology (2007), a dictionary with only 55 entries, as an exception to this rule. In this book, Liberman continues this work and makes it accessible to a broad audience.
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