Werner Hüllen is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has published widely on the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. His most recent interest is the history of linguistics, particularly lexicography. On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Professor Hüllen was awarded a two-volume Festschrift, Perspectives on Language in Performance, edited by Wolfgang Lörscher and Rainer Schulze, (Tübingen 1987). On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the members of the Oxford based Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, whose president he was between 1992 and 2002, honoured him with a reprint of Collected Papers on the History of Linguistic Ideas, edited by Michael M. Isermann (Münster 2002).

a book packed with new and fascinating information and analyses.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Peter Mark Roget and his ideas ; 3. Words, words, words ; 4. Synonymy: examples of early statements and practices ; 5. The beginnings of practical synonymy ; 6. The emergence of the English synonym dictionary ; 7. The topical tradition on English lexicography ; 8. Roget's Thesaurus: a topical dictionary of synonyms ; Bibliography ; Appendix ; Index

Werner Hüllen is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has published widely on the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. His most recent interest is the history of linguistics, particularly lexicography. On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Professor Hüllen was awarded a two-volume Festschrift, Perspectives on Language in Performance, edited by Wolfgang Lörscher and Rainer Schulze, (Tübingen 1987). On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the members of the Oxford based Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, whose president he was between 1992 and 2002, honoured him with a reprint of Collected Papers on the History of Linguistic Ideas, edited by Michael M. Isermann (Münster 2002).

a book packed with new and fascinating information and analyses.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Peter Mark Roget and his ideas ; 3. Words, words, words ; 4. Synonymy: examples of early statements and practices ; 5. The beginnings of practical synonymy ; 6. The emergence of the English synonym dictionary ; 7. The topical tradition on English lexicography ; 8. Roget's Thesaurus: a topical dictionary of synonyms ; Bibliography ; Appendix ; Index

Werner Hüllen is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has published widely on the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. His most recent interest is the history of linguistics, particularly lexicography. On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Professor Hüllen was awarded a two-volume Festschrift, Perspectives on Language in Performance, edited by Wolfgang Lörscher and Rainer Schulze, (Tübingen 1987). On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the members of the Oxford based Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, whose president he was between 1992 and 2002, honoured him with a reprint of Collected Papers on the History of Linguistic Ideas, edited by Michael M. Isermann (Münster 2002).

a book packed with new and fascinating information and analyses.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Peter Mark Roget and his ideas ; 3. Words, words, words ; 4. Synonymy: examples of early statements and practices ; 5. The beginnings of practical synonymy ; 6. The emergence of the English synonym dictionary ; 7. The topical tradition on English lexicography ; 8. Roget's Thesaurus: a topical dictionary of synonyms ; Bibliography ; Appendix ; Index