Patrick Hanks

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Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English

personal names
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Background

Hanks was educated at Ardingly College, University College, Oxford (BA, MA), and Masaryk University (PhD). After graduation from Oxford, he started his lexicographic career as editor of the Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary[1] (1971). In 1970, he was appointed editor of Collins English Dictionary (1979). From 1980 to 1983, he was director of the Names Research Unit of the University of Essex, England, where he began a PhD under the supervision of Yorick Wilks.

In 1983, he was appointed managing editor of

AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he co-authored with Ken Church influential papers[2][3]
on corpus-based statistical methods in lexical analysis.

Hanks died on 1 February 2024, at the age of 83.[4][5]

Career

From 1990 to 2000, Hanks served as chief editor of current English dictionaries at

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) headed by Christiane Fellbaum. He has also served as a consultant on lexicographical methodology to the Institute of the Czech Language
in Prague, to Patakis Publishers in Athens, and others.

Patrick Hanks was the author of many papers on

Oxford Dictionary of First Names[8] (1990, 2006). He was section editor for lexicography in the second edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2; 2005), edited by Keith Brown, for which he commissioned survey articles on lexicography in all the world's major languages and on major issues in lexicography and lexicology. He edited a multivolume collection covering all aspects of lexicology for Routledge
, and, with Rachel Giora, a companion collection covering all aspects of metaphor and figurative language.

From 2005 to 2009 he was a senior research associate at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, where he developed the empirical procedure of Corpus Pattern Analysis,[9] which links word meaning to patterns of word use and systematically distinguishes patterns of normal usage from creative uses. After a year in Prague at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, he returned to England as lead researcher on the FaNUK project in the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol), researching the origins, history, and geographical distribution of family names in the UK.

Hanks was latterly Professor in Lexicography at the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP) in the University of Wolverhampton, where he worked on projects in Corpus Pattern Analysis.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-829951-6
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  2. ISSN 0891-2017
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  3. ^ Google Scholar, over 145 other cited papers
  4. ^ "Patrick Wyndham Hanks – Official website". Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Patrick Hanks, lexicographer who illuminated the history of rude words and surnames – obituary". The Telegraph. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  6. ^ Many surnames began as insulting nicknames Archived 22 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Vancouver Sun, 9 October 2007
  7. ^ "Eskimo Kisses, Arm Hair, Moon Flags & Spike Lee vs. Stan Lee vs. Bruce Lee". Esquire. 9 May 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  8. ^ Was Elvis Irish, Welsh, Scottish, German or What? Archived 29 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Hanks, Patrick (2004) Corpus Pattern Analysis. In Williams, G. and Vessier, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2004, Lorient, France, 6–10 July. Lorient: Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Bretagne Sud. 87–97.

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