Lexicography

Author : Patricia Anderson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539598

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Revitalization Lexicography by Patricia Anderson Pdf

In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs. Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.

Author : Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1403 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351599641

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The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography by Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within the field. This Handbook features key case studies and cutting-edge contributions from an international range of practitioners, teachers, and researchers. Analysing the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries within the digital era, the 47 chapters address the core issues of: The foundations of lexicography, and its interactions with other disciplines including Corpus Linguistics and Information Science; Types of dictionaries, for purposes such as translation and teaching; Innovative specialised dictionaries such as the Oenolex wine dictionary and the Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language; Lexicography and world languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Chinese, and Indonesian; The future of lexicography, including the use of the Internet, user participation, and dictionary portals. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography is essential reading for researchers and students working in this area.

Author : Henning Bergenholtz,Sven Tarp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134574452

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Lexicography by Howard Jackson Pdf

This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries. Dictionaries are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons and parliament, and referred to by crossword addicts and Scrabble players alike. Lexicography provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential references. Howard Jackson analyzes a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource. Beginning with an introduction to the terms used in lexicology to describe words and vocabulary, and offering summaries and suggestions for further reading, Lexicography: An Introduction is highly student-friendly. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in the development and use of dictionaries.

Author : Frederick W. Danker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0802822169

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Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography by Frederick W. Danker Pdf

As the basis of modern translations of the Scriptures, biblical Greek and lexicography are disciplines vital to our understanding of the original Christian message. This volume, which celebrates the career of Frederick W. Danker, presents the state of the art in Greek and biblical language studies. Amid the important topics of discussion are how one discovers the meaning of words, current tools available to students of language, and the approach being used in the latest New Testament and Septuagint Greek dictionaries. Added features of this book include appendices listing current Greek-English dictionaries and grammars and current Greek dictionary and language projects as well as indexes of biblical references, Greek and Hebrew words, and grammatical terms.

Author : R. R. K. Hartmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317878339

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Teaching and Researching Lexicography by R. R. K. Hartmann Pdf

Who compiles dictionaries and other reference works? Which are used by whom? How do they achieve their purpose? Lexicography is a very important subject and the product of lexicography, the Dictionary, is a valuable resource in language learning. Teaching and Researching Lexicography explains the relations between lexicographic practice (dictionary-making) and theory (dictionary research), with special reference to the perspectives of: * dictionary history * dictionary criticism * dictionary typology * dictionary structure * dictionary use The final section of the book contains a variety of useful resources, including relevant related websites, a glossary of terms and a bibliography of cited dictionaries. This section can also be found on the Teaching and Researching Lexicography companion web-site. Written in a highly accessible style, Teaching and Researching Lexicography provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date and international coverage of this field in English, and will be of great interest to lexicographers, language teachers and applied linguists.

Author : Sven Tarp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783484391345

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Lexicography in the Borderland Between Knowledge and Non-knowledge by Sven Tarp Pdf

The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners' dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.

Author : R. R. K. Hartmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415253675

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Lexicography: Reference works across time, space and languages by R. R. K. Hartmann Pdf

Author : John A. Haywood
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Arabic Lexicography by John A. Haywood Pdf

Author : Jerzy Tomaszczyk,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278197

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Meaning and Lexicography by Jerzy Tomaszczyk,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Pdf

While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot point. The conference which produced the papers offered in this volume was designed to bring their practioners together and thus gives an impetus to closer cooperation among them, It is the editors' conviction that the practical activity of lexicography should learn more from its sister fields. People working in lexicography, lexical semantics, etc. may find some of the insights arrived at in the more practically oriented descriptions pertinent and useful.

Author : Piet van Sterkenburg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Carolin Ostermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110424164

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Cognitive Lexicography by Carolin Ostermann Pdf

English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language.

Author : Heming Yong,Jing Peng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Reinhard Rudolf Karl Hartmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110972399

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Interlingual Lexicography by Reinhard Rudolf Karl Hartmann Pdf

Selection of 24 essays by the dictionary researcher Reinhard Hartmann on ‘Interlingual Lexicography’, a genre much neglected in the literature, including interdisciplinary approaches to translation equivalence, its analysis in contrastive text linguistics and its treatment in the bilingual dictionary, with particular attention to the user perspective, in English and German.

Author : Howard Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441114150

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The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography by Howard Jackson Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. Each companion is a comprehensive reference resource featuring an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. Lexicography, as the practice of compiling dictionaries, has a long tradition that has been, for much of the time, largely independent of linguistics. The direct influence of linguistics on lexicography goes back around 50 years, though longer in the case of learners' dictionaries. The present volume aims to reflect on the research that has been and is being done in lexicography and to point the way forward. It tackles, among other topics, the critique of dictionaries in the electronic medium, the future of historical lexicography in the electronic mode with special reference to the online Oxford English Dictionary, and e-lexicography in general.