id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14302 Traister, Daniel Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer (Book Review) 1987-03-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2286 144 61 It is distinguished, if at all, by a philo-technological conclusion, ' a somewhat unexpected concentration on reference books, and an overall emphasis on the impact of books generally and printing specifically that is deeply in- debted to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's Print- ing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge, 1979). Within this broad context, the Glaswe- gian linguist and lexicographer looks most specifically at the history of the study of language and at what he regards as there- lated creation of reference books, mainly lexicographic but also encyclopedic. cache/crl-14302.pdf txt/crl-14302.txt