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Two iconic twentieth-century print dictionaries provide a sampling of dictionary front matter in the Soviet–Russian lexicographic tradition; they demonstrate how front matter was used for overt and covert messaging about the linguistic norm. First is the one-volume bilingual English–Russian dictionary of Vladimir Karlovich Müller, and second is the one-volume monolingual Russian dictionary of Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov; later it was published with Ozhegov and Nataliia Iul’evna Shvedova listed as co-authors. Both dictionaries were revised and reprinted over many decades. Only two editions of each dictionary are in focus, although there were more than sixty editions of Müller, 23 of Ozhegov, and several of Ozhegov and Shvedova.
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Biographical information is from Ermolovich (2011).
A perfect example of this is the transition of the 2008 Merriam–Webster’s Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary to its present online instantiation, the Merriam–Webster Learner’s Dictionary.
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Farina, D.M.T.C. 20th-century Soviet–Russian dictionary front matter: focus on the linguistic norm. Lexicography ASIALEX 7, 115–122 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40607-020-00064-z
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