Lexicography Quotes

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. (Samuel Johnson)
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Meaning... is to be regarded as a complex of contextual relations, and phonetics, grammar, lexicography, and semantics each handles its own components of the complex in its appropriate context. View quote
John Rupert Firth