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And Orientalism , with its harsh critiques of European philology and American social science, contributed to an epistemological shift in the American academy: Traditional disciplines were no longer to be taken for granted as the vehicles of objective knowledge but themselves became the objects of ideological analysis.
It goes without saying that most of those drawn to lexicography, like those attracted to art schools, exhibit skills more likely to be associated with craft than with art; these days, far too few of those who work on dictionaries have a thorough grounding in literature, let alone the various specialties within linguistics—general and comparative studies, classical and modern foreign language study, phonetics, philology, etymology, to say nothing of lexicology and lexicography.
Meanwhile, in Belgrade, several hundred teaching staff and students of Belgrade University's philology department stopped work for an hour yesterday to protest the government's dismissal of certain faculty members.
In the New York Review of Books , for example, the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, one of the chief modern villains of Orientalism , decried Said's inflammatory tone and questioned his knowledge of history, philology, and Arabic.
In an article (The Use of Lallans for Prose, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, LI, No. 2, April, 1952, pp. 212-225), I tried to show, elsewhere, this happening to Braid Scots, the Doric, or Lallans in Scotland.