1. The document discusses the history and development of lexicography and thematic dictionaries from Old English glossaries to Peter Mark Roget's Thesaurus. 2. It provides examples of thematic categories from early glossaries and describes how Roget arranged concepts in his Thesaurus according to six classes based on philosophical principles of classification. 3. Since its first publication in 1852, Roget's Thesaurus has sold over 40 million copies and become one of the most recognizable books in the English language.

1. AMMAN ARAB UNIVERSTY
The Thematic Tradition in
Lexicography
by:
Yasmin alzubaidi
Eman al-hassan
Safaa alqaissi
Abdullah
Alsaaideh
Supervised by
Dr. Khaleel Al Bataineh
Department of English Language & Translation

2. During the old english period there was a list of alphabatical
word goes back to the latine _ english glossaries complied by
scholar monks, that had been arranged is called Alfric glossary
who lived from around 955_1020.his works included teaching
latin to English _speaking begginers . The glossary latin word
aggregates with their english dictionary into
.
groups

3. such as: God, heaven, earth, mankind
2-parts of the human body
3_church offices
4_family relationships.
5_state offices, including crafts and instruments as well as tools.
6_negative features of human character
7_intellectual work .
8_diseases, afflictions, merits
9_weather, universe _birds _fish _wild animals.... etc.
.

4. I the transcendentals, the general notions which determine all the subsequent principles of
order.
They include ‘discourse’, that is ‘words’ as opposed to ‘things’
Here are some examples too:
II God, the creator, and the creation, that is the world observed collectively.
III together with all the following chapters is devoted to the world observed distributively … the
inanimate elements under the ‘predicament’, that is, the category of substance
IV the vegetative species.
V the sensitive.
VI the significant parts of vegetative and sensitive.
VII various phenomena belonging to ‘quantity’, a category which is subsumed under the
category ‘accident’. So are the following four chapters.
VIII various phenomena belonging to ‘quality’
IX various phenomena belonging to ‘action’
X various phenomena belonging to ‘private relation’
XI various phenomena belonging to ‘public relation’.
*Each of these broad categories is further divided and subdivided, following a logical,
philosophical scheme.

5. so the dictionary had been developed bilingul and monologual dictionaries especially
under the infuence of Renaissance, also thematic work books were complied mostly
the Morvaian Comenius under the title: lanua linguarum reserata of wich latin and
German version were published in 1631. so John Wilkins John who born in: (January 1,
1614 - November 19, 1672) who was an English priest, natural philosopher, author,
and encyclopedic scholar, as well as founded the Hidden College, one of the founders
of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. also he put
forward a scheme for classifying the vocabulary of any language; at its most general
level.

6. IT RETURNS TO THE CONCEPTS UNDERLYING WILKING PHILOSOPHICAL
TABLES . ROGET HAS SIT GENERAL CHAPTERS, WHICH ARE INITIALLY
DIVIDED INTO “SECTIONS”
CLASS SECTION :A SECTION CAN BE A GROUP WITHIN A CLASS . AGAIN IT
MY DEPEND ON THE TYPE OF EDUCATION INSTITUTION AND HOW THE
INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION INSTITUTION GROUP THEIR STUDENTS WITHIN A
CLASS .
the object aimed at in the present undertaking is ……the idea being given
,to find the word ,or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly
expressed.
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INTRODUCTION
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7. 
I ABSTRACT RELATIONS I
EXISTENCE
1-RELATION : A RELATION R FROM SET X TO A SET Y IS DEFINED AS A
SUBSET OF THE CARTESIAN PRODUCT XX Y .WE CAN ALSO WRITE IT AS R
(X,Y)…….
2-QUANTITY IS DEFINED AS AN AMAUNT , MEASURE OR NUMBER . AN
EXAMBLE OF QUANTITY IS HOW MANY APPLES ARE IN A BARREL
….SOMETHING ,SUCH AS A NUMBER ,OR SYMBOL THAT REPRESENTS A
NUMBER , WICH A MATHEMATICAL OPERATION IS PERFORMED.
e.g
in school or k -12 :section and class may look as below
Class : grade 1
Section :division1,division2

8. 3- change class : several students change subject(s) while
studing in class x or xii on various grounds as per the revised
rule.

9. Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so to Assist in
Literary Composition clearly bore the stamp of its creator. Roget’s was a two-for-one:
it put both a book of synonyms and a topic dictionary (a compendium of thematically
arranged concepts) under one cover . Borrowing the principles of zoological
classification, Roget arranged all knowledge—not just words. Just as his hero, the 18th
century naturalist Carl Linnaeus divided animals into six classes, Roget divvied up his
1000 concepts as follows :
I Abstract Relations
II Space
III MatterI
V Intellect
V Volition
VI Affections

10. The first edition actually contains 1002 concepts, but Roget was a stickler for
symmetry. Upon discovering that he had a couple too many, he numbered
“Absence of Intellect” 450a and “Indiscrimination” 465a.The 1000 headings of
the 1852 edition were arranged not alphabetically but according to where a
given idea fit within Roget’s classification system. In that edition, the first entry is
“Existence” (which falls under the first class, Abstract Relations). The purpose is
to help readers find le mot just for a given idea—say “being” or “reality” for
existence . Shortly before publication, Roget decided to insert an alphabetical
index as an appendix,

11. thus enabling readers to use the Thesaurus as a convention book of
synonyms—without necessarily having to delve into its complex
philosophical underpinnings.Since first rolling off the presses of London’s
Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans in June 1852, Roget’s Thesaurus of
English Words And Phrases has emerged as one of the most recognizable
books in the English language. Roget’s has sold more than 40 million
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copies, and has become a proprietary eponym like Coke, Kleenex, or Google.

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