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Fuertes-Olivera, Pedro A. and Ascensión Arribas-Baño. 2008. Pedagogical Specialised Lexicography. The representation of meaning in English and Spanish business dictionaries. (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 11). John Benjamins. ix+165 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This book, which combines dictionary research and linguistic knowledge, analyses the representation of meaning in business dictionaries from a pedagogical perspective. By examining in detail the macrostructure, mediostructure, access structure and microstructure of eight business dictionaries, this book presents interesting findings on how the dictionaries studied represent the ‘noun-term’, and on how they cope with the principles of new lexicography that aims at solving the needs of a specific type of user with specific types of problems related to a specific type of user situation. This exhaustive study, which makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of terminology, lexicography, and LSP teaching, defends a methodological confluence between LSP lexicography and terminology, and proposes some guiding principles towards the construction of pedagogically-oriented specialised dictionaries that must target students enrolled in LSP courses: Business English, Business Spanish, Business Translation, etc.