Dictionary Wars

Narrates and analyzes a series of polemics surrounding French lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book suggests that the special place of dictionaries in French culture, along with the specificity of France as a linguistically focused community, has a long history.

Povesteste si analizeaza o serie de polemici care inconjoara lexicografia franceza in secolele XVII si XVIII. Aceasta carte sugereaza ca locul special al dictionarelor in cultura franceza, impreuna cu specificitatea Frantei ca comunitate axata pe plan lingvistic, are o istorie lunga.