Practical lexicography : a reader

Practical lexicography : a reader / edited by Thierry Fontenelle.

This reader collects some of the best and most useful work in practical lexicography, focusing on the central issues and hottest topics in the field. An essential resource for all students and scholars of lexicography and lexicology as well as professional lexicographers. - ;This book collects and i...

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Other Authors: Fontenelle, Thierry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Lexicography.
17.60 lexicology and lexicography.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY.
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
Lexicography
Lexikologie
Lexikografie
Lexikographie.
Anglès > Lexicografia.
Lexikografi.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editor's Introduction / Thierry Fontenelle
  • Part I. Metalexicography, Macrostructure, Microstructure, and the Contribution of Linguistic Theory
  • The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language / Samuel Johnson (edited by Jack Lynch)
  • Theoretical Lexicography and its Relation to Dictionary-making / Sue Atkins
  • Part II. On Corpus Design
  • Principles of Systematic Lexicography / Juri Apresjan
  • Representativeness in Corpus Design / Douglas Biber
  • Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus / Adam Kilgarriff and Gregory Grefenstette
  • Part III. On Lexicographical Evidence
  • "Corpus Linguistics'' Or "Computer-Aided Armchair Linguistics'' / Charles J. Fillmore
  • Part IV. On Word Senses and Polysemy
  • Do word Meanings Exist? / Patrick Hanks
  • I don't Believe in Word Senses / Adam Kilgarriff
  • Polysemy / Penny Stock
  • Part V. On Collocations, Idioms, and Dictionaries
  • Phraseology / Anthony P. Cowie
  • Using a Bilingual Dictionary to Create Semantic Networks / Thierry Fontenelle
  • Part VI. On Definitions
  • Defining the Indefinable / Dwight Bolinger
  • More Than One Way to Skin a Cat : Why Full-Sentence Definitions Have Not Been Universally Adopted / Michael Rundell
  • Part VII. On Examples
  • Corpus-based versus Lexicographer Examples in Comprehension and Production of New Words / Batia Laufer
  • Part VIII. On Grammar and Usage in Dictionaries
  • Recent Trends in English Pedagogical Lexicography / Michael Rundell
  • Part IX. On Bilingual Lexicography
  • Then and Now : Competence and Performance in Years of Lexicography / Sue Atkins
  • Equivalence in Bilingual Dictionaries / Alain Duval
  • Part X. On Tools for Lexicographers
  • Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography / Kenineth Ward Church and Patrick Hanks
  • The Sketch Engine / Adam Kilgarriff [and others]
  • The Future of Linguistics and Lexicographers : Will there be Lexicographers in the Year 3000? / Gregory Grefenstette
  • Part XI. On Semantic Networks and WordNets
  • Introduction to WordNet : An On-line Lexical Database / George A. Miller [and others]
  • Part XII. On Dictionary Use
  • Monitoring Dictionary Use / Sue Atkins and Krista Varantola.

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