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	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2286	115	57	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