A Practical Guide to Lexicography

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Piet van Sterkenburg

| Institute for Dutch Lexicology, Leiden

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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.

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 6] 2003. xii, 460 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.6

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I. The forms, contents and uses of dictionaries
Chapter 1. Foundations
1.1 ‘The’ dictionary: Definition and history Piet van Sterkenburg	3–17
1.2 Source materials for dictionaries František Čermák	18–25
1.3 Uses and users of dictionaries Paul Bogaards	26–33
1.4 Types of articles, their structure and different types of lemmata Rufus H. Gouws	34–43
1.5 Dictionary typologies: A pragmatic approach Piet Swanepoel	44–69
Chapter 2. Descriptive lexicography
2.1 Phonological, morphological and syntactic specifications in monolingual dictionaries Johan De Caluwé and Ariane van Santen	71–82
2.2 Meaning and definition Dirk Geeraerts	83–93
2.3 Dictionaries of proverbs Stanisław Prędota	94–101
2.4 Pragmatic specifications: Usage indications, labels, examples; dictionaries of style, dictionaries of collocations Igor Burkhanov	102–113
2.5 Morphology in dictionaries Johan De Caluwé and Johan Taeldeman	114–126
2.6 Onomasiological specifications and a concise history of onomasiological dictionaries Piet van Sterkenburg	127–143
Chapter 3. Special types of dictionaries
3.1 Types of bilingual dictionaries Mike Hannay	145–153
3.2 Specialized lexicography and specialized dictionaries Lynne Bowker	154–164
II. Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries
Chapter 4. Corpora for dictionaries
4.1 Corpora for lexicography John McH. Sinclair	167–178
4.2 Corpus processing John McH. Sinclair	179–193
4.3 Multifunctional linguistic databases: Their multiple use Truus Kruyt	194–203
4.4 Lexicographic workbench: A case history Daniel Ridings	204–214
Chapter 5. Design of dictionaries
5.1 Developments in electronic dictionary design Lineke Oppentocht and Rik Schutz	215–227
5.2 Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries Krista Varantola	228–239
5.3 The design of online lexicons Sean Michael Burke	240–249
Chapter 6. Realisation of dictionaries
6.1 The codification of phonological, morphological, and syntactic information Geert Booij	251–259
6.2 The production and use of occurrence examples John Simpson	260–272
6.3 The codification of semantic information Fons Moerdijk	273–296
6.4 The codification of usage by labels Henk J. Verkuyl, Maarten Janssen and Frank Jansen	297–311
6.5 The codification of etymological information Nicoline van der Sijs	314–321
Chapter 7. Examples of design and production criteria for major dictionaries
7.1 Examples of design and production criteria for bilingual dictionaries Wim Honselaar	323–332
7.2 Design and production of terminological dictionaries Willy Martin and H. van der Vliet	333–349
7.3 Design and production of monolingual dictionaries Ferenc Kiefer † and Piet van Sterkenburg	350–365
7.4 Towards an ‘ideal’ Dictionary of English Collocations Stefania Nuccorini	366–387
Glossary	389–419
Bibliography	421–442
General index	443–459

“This Guide is certainly of great interest to dictionary makers and dictionary users: its main merit is related to the light that it sheds on technological developments that make lexicography a whole new technical domain in linguistics: potentially much richer, much more useful to all other domains in linguistics and much more user-friendly. Furthermore, the light shed on electronic dictionaries also highlights the lexicographic heritage and the lexicographers' know-how.”

Alina Villalva, Professor of Linguistics, University of Lisbon

“This book runs the gamut of a wide variation of topics in lexicography.”

Michael Klotz, in Lexicographica 21/2005

“[...] offers a solid introduction to current lexicography. The book is user-friendly and intended to be a safe and efficient guide for those who want to know how dictonaries are made. [...] the team clearly demonstrates that in lexicography there are “universals” of dictionary production.”

Jean-Claude Boulanger, Université Laval, Canada, in Terminology Vol. 10:2 (2004)

“According to the words of the editor, the volume was designed as an easily accessible introduction to the world of lexicography and a reliable compass for those wishing to know how dictionaries are made. The authors have more than fulfilled these objectives. The reader is acquainted with the theory and with the state-of-the-art methods of lexicography. Each chapter provides the most current information about diverse aspects of dictionary functioning, structure, compilation, and usage. The book will become a convenient tool for lexicographers, but also for students of linguistics.”

Jan Holeš, Palacký University, Czech Republic, in Language Vol. 82:1 (2006)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Semantics

Terminology & Lexicography

Lexicography

Terminology

BIC Subject: CFM – Lexicography

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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