A Practical Guide To Lexicography

Author : Piet van Sterkenburg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296511

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A Practical Guide to Lexicography by Piet van Sterkenburg Pdf

This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries. A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for general and specific purposes. The domains of lexicography are outlined and its specific terminology is explained in the Glossary. Each chapter provides ample suggestions for further reading. Naturally, electronic dictionaries, corpus analysis, and database management are central themes throughout the book. The book also "introduces" questions about the many types of definition, meaning, sense relations, and stylistics. And that is not all: those afraid to embark on a dictionary adventure will find out all about the pitfalls in the chapters on Design. A Practical Guide to Lexicography introduces and seduces you to learn about the achievements, unexpected possibilities, and challenges of modern-day lexicography.

Author : B. T. Sue Atkins,Michael Rundell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191557217

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The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography by B. T. Sue Atkins,Michael Rundell Pdf

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogic components that make up an entry. The authors explain the relevance and application of recent linguistic theories, such as prototype theory and frame semantics, and describe the role of software in the manipulation of data and the compilation of entries. They provide practical exercises at every stage. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography draws on materials developed by the authors over more than twenty years of teaching courses for publishing houses and universities in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and China, South Africa, Australia, the UK, and Europe. It will be welcomed everywhere by lexicographers, teachers of lexicography, and their students. It is also fascinating reading for all those interested in discovering how dictionaries are made.

Author : Thierry Fontenelle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191558931

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Practical Lexicography by Thierry Fontenelle Pdf

This book collects and introduces some of the best and most useful work in practical lexicography. It has been designed as a resource for students and scholars of lexicography and lexicology and to be an essential reference for professional lexicographers. It focusses on central issues in the field and covers topics hotly debated in lexicography circles. After a full contextual introduction Thierry Fontenelle divides the book into twelve parts - theoretical perspectives, corpus design, lexicographical evidence, word senses and polysemy, collocations and idioms, definitions, examples, grammar and usage, bilingual lexicography, tools and methods, semantic networks, and how dictionaries are used. The book is fully referenced and indexed. The reader may be used independently for reference or as reading material for a course of study. It is an essential companion for The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography by Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell, published by OUP in 2008.

Author : Ladislav Zgusta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111349183

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Manual of lexicography by Ladislav Zgusta Pdf

Author : Helen Aristar Dry,John Lawler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134704378

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Using Computers in Linguistics by Helen Aristar Dry,John Lawler Pdf

Computing has had a dramatic impact on the discipline of linguistics and is shaping the way we conceptualize both linguistics and language. Using Computers in Linguistics provides a non-technical introduction to recent developments in linguistic computing and offers specific guidance to the linguist or language professional who wishes to take advantage of them. Divided into eight chapters, each of the expert contributors focus on a different aspect of the interaction of computing and linguistics looking either at computational resources: the Internet, software for fieldwork and teaching linguistics, Unix utilities, or at computational developments: the availability of electronic texts, new methodologies in natural language processing, the development of the CELLAR computing environment for linguistic analysis.

Author : Beryl T. Sue Atkins,Michael Rundell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Lexicography
ISBN : 1383042233

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The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography by Beryl T. Sue Atkins,Michael Rundell Pdf

This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities world-wide. The book takes readers through building a corpus, analysing the data, and writing entries.

Author : Bo Svensén
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003431090

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Practical Lexicography by Bo Svensén Pdf

This is the first book to give a full and readable account of how dictionaries are made. It is both a general introduction to lexicography and a systematic guide to lexicographic methods. Included are sections on treatment of pronunciation, inflection, constructions, collocations, and idioms; the structure of entries and their arrangement in a dictionary; and the planning, execution, and monitoring of a dictionary project. Practical Lexicography demonstrates how both one-language and two-language dictionaries are written, the ways in which materials are selected, arranged, and explained, and how computers have revolutionized the making of dictionaries.

Author : Bo Svensén
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521708249

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A Handbook of Lexicography by Bo Svensén Pdf

This book provides a systematic survey of the theory and methods of dictionary-making (including the linguistic background): what types of dictionary there are, how different kinds of information are dealt with when compiling dictionaries, how this information is presented to users, and how dictionaries are actually used. It refers throughout to both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, giving a full account of the writing of definitions as well as of the selection and presentation of equivalents. The treatment of other types of information provided in dictionaries - such as pronunciation, inflection, constructions, collocations and idioms - is described systematically in individual chapters. The book also discusses dictionary structure, illustrations, the collection and selection of material, the management of dictionary projects, law and ethics in lexicographic work, and dictionary criticism. As well as looking at print lexicography, the author discusses the role of the Web, electronic corpora, electronic dictionaries, and compilation software used in dictionary-making. This is an important and practical guide to contemporary lexicography, designed for lexicographers, language students and teachers, translators and academics.

Author : Heming Yong,Jing Peng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292407

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Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective by Heming Yong,Jing Peng Pdf

This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural communication and bilingual dictionary making as a dynamic process realized by sets of choices, characterizing the overall nature of the dictionary. It examines the dictionary and dictionary making by using a model of lexicography which stresses the three-way relationship of compiler, dictionary context and user and incorporates them into a unified coherent framework. Throughout the study, special focus is on English and Chinese bilingual lexicography. It will serve not only as a valuable guide to those interested in dictionary compilation and theoretical inquiries but also as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in bilingual lexicography.

Author : Vaclav Brezina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107125704

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Statistics in Corpus Linguistics by Vaclav Brezina Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

Author : R. H. Gouws,D. J. Prinsloo
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781919980904

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Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography by R. H. Gouws,D. J. Prinsloo Pdf

Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography is directed at experts in the field of practical and theoretical lexicography in South Africa, applying the general theory of lexicography to the South African lexicographic environment. The authors of this book are leaders in the field of South African lexicography and active participants in the international lexicographic arena, publishing regularly in national and international journals and giving papers at international conferences and workshops.

Author : Philip Durkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199691630

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The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography by Philip Durkin Pdf

This volume provides concise, authoritative accounts of the approaches and methodologies of modern lexicography and of the aims and qualities of its end products. Leading scholars and professional lexicographers, from all over the world and representing all the main traditions andperspectives, assess the state of the art in every aspect of research and practice. The book is divided into four parts, reflecting the main types of lexicography. Part I looks at synchronic dictionaries - those for the general public, monolingual dictionaries for second-language learners, andbilingual dictionaries. Part II and III are devoted to the distinctive methodologies and concerns of the historical dictionaries and specialist dictionaries respectively, while chapters in Part IV examine specific topics such as description and prescription; the representation of pronunciation; andthe practicalities of dictionary production. The book ends with a chronology of the major events in the history of lexicography. It will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in the field.

Author : Henning Bergenholtz,Sven Tarp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027216120

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Manual of Specialised Lexicography by Henning Bergenholtz,Sven Tarp Pdf

From 1990 1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled translation of LSP texts, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography."The Manual of Specialised Lexicography" is one of the results of the research undertaken by this project. The primary purpose of the Manual is to contribute towards an improved basis for practical specialised lexicography, which has so far had but a small share in the explosive development that has taken place in general-language lexicography since the early 1970s. One implication of this is that only to a limited extent has it been possible to build upon existing findings.The Manual thus has the twofold aim of offering guidance and direction to authors of specialised dictionaries as well as contributing towards the further development of lexicographical theories.

Author : Howard Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350181724

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography by Howard Jackson Pdf

A definitive guide to the long tradition of lexicography, this handbook is a rigorous and systematic overview of the field and its recent developments. Featuring key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning and developing research in the field, this one-volume reference provides both a survey of current research and more practical guidance for advanced study. Fully updated and revised to take account of recent developments, in particular innovations in digital technology and online lexicography, this second edition features: - 6 new chapters, covering metalexicography, lexicography for Asian languages, lexicography for endangered and minority languages, onomasiological lexicography, collaborative lexicography, and internet dictionaries - Thoroughly revised chapters on learner dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries and future directions, alongside a significantly updated third part on 'New Directions in Lexicography', accounting for innovations in digital lexicography - An expanded glossary of key terms and an updated annotated bibliography Identifying and describing the central concepts associated with lexicography and its main branches of study, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography demonstrates the direct influence of linguistics on the development of the field and is an essential resource for anyone interested in this area.

Author : Laura Karpinska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394290

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English-Latvian Lexicographic Tradition by Laura Karpinska Pdf

Since 1987 when the first English explanatory dictionary fully based on corpus evidence was published, considerable changes related to the choice of lexicographic evidence have affected the field of lexicography. On this background (even though the volume of the lexicographic material is ample) the English-Latvian lexicographic tradition looks rather traditional and even somewhat stagnant. Thus, there is an urgent need for a detailed analytical inventory of English-Latvian dictionaries in order tofacilitatenew dictionary projects. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development of the English-Latvian lexicographic tradition considering the various extra-linguistic factors which have influenced it. It studies the typical features of English-Latvian dictionaries traced throughout the tradition at the levels of their mega-, macro- and microstructure, pinpoints the problematic aspects of English-Latvian lexicography and offers theoretically grounded solutions for improving the quality of future English-Latvian dictionaries.