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On some China-related entries in the Oxford English Dictionary
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- Presented at Cultural and Historical Lexicography session
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Inspired by Phil Benson's study on the relations between ethnocentrism and the China-related entries in the OED2, this paper attempts to further examine from an ideological perspective how the image of China, a so-called "peripheral object of Western knowledge", has been (mis-)constructed in the dictionary, particularly its latest 2009 CD-ROM version, into which many laudable updates, including corrections and supplements, have been meticulously incorporated, and argues that (1) although Brit...
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- Published
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- Reviewed (other)
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2011-02-22
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- Zhu Ji-song
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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