This paper focusses on an area of French dictionaries which is largely ignored: the ornamental head-pieces that may appear on the first page of every letter-chapter. Using the 'G' head-pieces of five dictionaries covering a period from 1834 to 1950, the author identifies the particularities of the illustrations, focussing on the singular motor used for choice of the items illustrated: their initial letters. To this end, the term iconophor is defined as follows: an image whose first distinctive feature consists in the letter that begins the name of its referent. The author contends that these illustrations provide a window into perceptions of French culture, suggesting that further study of other letters and dictionaries would be necessary in order to pursue this hypothesis.
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%A Male, Thora
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%J International Journal of Lexicography
%K french, ijl, lexicography
%N 4
%P 261--282
%R 10.1093/ijl/14.4.261
%T FRENCH WINDOWS: THE ORNAMENTAL HEAD-PRICES IN FRENCH DICTIONARIES
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%X This paper focusses on an area of French dictionaries which is largely ignored: the ornamental head-pieces that may appear on the first page of every letter-chapter. Using the 'G' head-pieces of five dictionaries covering a period from 1834 to 1950, the author identifies the particularities of the illustrations, focussing on the singular motor used for choice of the items illustrated: their initial letters. To this end, the term iconophor is defined as follows: an image whose first distinctive feature consists in the letter that begins the name of its referent. The author contends that these illustrations provide a window into perceptions of French culture, suggesting that further study of other letters and dictionaries would be necessary in order to pursue this hypothesis.
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