| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第11-12页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第12-14页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第17-29页 |
| ·Prefatory remarks | 第17-20页 |
| ·Literature review | 第20-24页 |
| ·Argument | 第24-27页 |
| ·The research approaches | 第27页 |
| ·The publishing history of the OED | 第27-28页 |
| ·A note of the style and format | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 2 Lexicography on History:The OED and the Earlier Dictionaries | 第29-85页 |
| ·Introduction | 第29-32页 |
| ·Before Johnson | 第32-44页 |
| ·Statistical methodology:the QHR and the YCR | 第33-35页 |
| ·Hard-word dictionaries | 第35-40页 |
| ·The "first" English dictionary:Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall | 第36-37页 |
| ·The first "scientific" English dictionary:Bullokar's English Expositor | 第37-38页 |
| ·The first English "dictionary":Cockeram's English Dictionarie | 第38-39页 |
| ·A generous contributor:Blount's Glossographia | 第39-40页 |
| ·Post-hard-word dictionaries | 第40-43页 |
| ·Nascent encyclopedism:Phillips's New World of English Words | 第40-42页 |
| ·The common-word approach:Kersey's dictionaries | 第42-43页 |
| ·Section review | 第43-44页 |
| ·"Pre-scientific":Johnson and Bailey | 第44-58页 |
| ·Johnson's Dictionary | 第45-55页 |
| ·Authorship | 第45-46页 |
| ·Achievements | 第46-47页 |
| ·On the minus side | 第47-49页 |
| ·As a point of departure | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Dictionary in the Dictionary | 第50-55页 |
| ·Bailey's dictionaries | 第55-57页 |
| ·Section review | 第57-58页 |
| ·"Post-pre-scientific":the one hundred and thirty years | 第58-63页 |
| ·At a low tempo:the efforts of Sheridan and Walker | 第58-60页 |
| ·On the shoulders of giants:combination and latitudinarianism | 第60-62页 |
| ·Section review | 第62-63页 |
| ·Webster and his after-life | 第63-73页 |
| ·WWW:ideological clashes in early American lexicography | 第63-65页 |
| ·Anglophobe or anglophile:Webster's attitude toward the British | 第65-68页 |
| ·The selling point:definitions | 第68-71页 |
| ·Nu:the 1864 revision | 第71-72页 |
| ·Section review | 第72-73页 |
| ·In search of the semantic nucleus:Home Tooke and Richardson | 第73-82页 |
| ·On Winged Words:Horne Tooke's fanciful linguistic theory | 第74-75页 |
| ·Richardson's lexicography | 第75-82页 |
| ·Etymological posit | 第75-79页 |
| ·The worthwhile endeavor:illustrative quotations | 第79-82页 |
| ·Section review | 第82页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第82-85页 |
| Chapter 3 Lexicography for History:The OED and Comparative Philology | 第85-125页 |
| ·Introduction | 第85-86页 |
| ·The hyper-polyglot:Jones as the initiator of comparative philology | 第86-96页 |
| ·The proto-Indo-European theory | 第86-88页 |
| ·British reception:pride and prejudice | 第88-94页 |
| ·Jones's posthumous influence:a starting point | 第94-95页 |
| ·Section review | 第95-96页 |
| ·The Continental scholars:the ascendancy of comparative philology | 第96-103页 |
| ·From Hamilton to Bopp | 第96-98页 |
| ·The Brothers Grimm and the Neogrammarians | 第98-103页 |
| ·Section review | 第103页 |
| ·The etymology of the OED | 第103-112页 |
| ·A taste of love:a comparison with some other dictionaries | 第104-108页 |
| ·Variant forms:the signature of the OED | 第108-111页 |
| ·Section review | 第111-112页 |
| ·Das W(o|¨)rterbuch | 第112-123页 |
| ·Features as a historical dictionary | 第112-115页 |
| ·Frustrations | 第115-116页 |
| ·The DWB and the OED | 第116-122页 |
| ·The national honor of England | 第116-118页 |
| ·Differences between the DWB and the NED | 第118-121页 |
| ·Going online:the DWB and the OED | 第121-122页 |
| ·Section review | 第122-123页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第123-125页 |
| Chapter 4 Lexicography in History:The OED and Its Makers | 第125-212页 |
| ·Introduction | 第125-126页 |
| ·The initiation of the OED | 第126-145页 |
| ·The bank of human resources:the Philological Society | 第127-130页 |
| ·The inspiration of the OED:Trench | 第130-136页 |
| ·The Seven Sins:his lexicographical criticism | 第131-133页 |
| ·"My idea of a Dictionary":an inventory made by a historian | 第133-134页 |
| ·Exhaustiveness and descriptivism | 第134-136页 |
| ·A specimen of the Society's Dictionary:Coleridge | 第136-140页 |
| ·Enthusiasm and energy:Furnivall | 第140-145页 |
| ·Section review | 第145页 |
| ·The execution of the OED | 第145-172页 |
| ·Murray's editorship | 第146-155页 |
| ·"The compass of the vocabulary":the diagram for English words | 第149-152页 |
| ·"The most valuable feature":changes illustrated by quotations | 第152-155页 |
| ·Those who "had better try":the Delegates of the OUP | 第155-159页 |
| ·From sub-editors to editors:Bradley,Craigie,and Onions | 第159-162页 |
| ·The supplementation of the OED:from Craigie and Onions to Burchfield | 第162-167页 |
| ·Combined action:the readers for the OED | 第167-171页 |
| ·Section review | 第171-172页 |
| ·The makers' signatures in the OED | 第172-210页 |
| ·F-k:taboo words in the OED | 第172-178页 |
| ·Appendicitis:scientific terms in the OED | 第178-182页 |
| ·"Testimony":quotationlessness in the OED | 第182-188页 |
| ·"Shakes":quotation distribution in the OED | 第188-201页 |
| ·What the OED has not done:discrimination of synonyms | 第201-209页 |
| ·Section review | 第209-210页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第210-212页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第212-218页 |
| Works Consulted | 第218-237页 |
