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Number Vol15 Year 2005

32 articles in this issue 

J.C.M.D. Du Plessis

Vanjaar is dit tien jaar sedert AFRILEX tot stand gekom en Lexikos die ampte-like mondstuk van AFRILEX geword het. In hierdie nommer verskyn 'n kort oorsig deur dr. Mariëtta Alberts, die huidige President van AFRILEX, oor die aanloop tot die totstandkomin... see more

 

Mariëtte Alberts

Taalpraktisyns wat gemoeid is met leksikografie en terminologie/terminogra-fie werk met standaarde — óf die standaardvariëteit van 'n taal óf standaarde as sodanig.Leksikograwe stel woordeboeke saam deur (gewoonlik) die woordeskat van die standaardtaal te... see more

 

Herman L. Beyer

OPSOMMING: Hierdie artikel probeer om 'n evaluering te gee van die vierde uitgawe van die Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal wat in 2000 verskyn het, in vergelyking met Kernwoordeboek, waarvan die eerste uitgawe in 2000 gepubliseer is. Die... see more

 

Lilian Gangla-Birir

ABSTRACT: This article examines the use of pictorial illustrations in African language dictionar-ies, with particular reference to items generally included in dictionaries based on Stein's (1991) categories. It argues for the need to include more illustra... see more

 

Rufus H. Gouws

OPSOMMING: Navorsing op die gebied van die metaleksikografie het oor die laaste paar dekades 'n betekenisvolle fokusverbreding ondergaan. Die aanvanklike fokus was veral op die woordeboekinhoud. Mettertyd het die fokus verskillende woordeboekstrukture ing... see more

 

R.R.K. Hartmann

ABSTRACT: The article attempts a first conspectus of what is known about interdisciplinary con-tacts between the fields of Lexicography and Linguistics, and in the process asks a range of funda-mental questions on whether and how the subject matter is sha... see more

 

Phillip Louw

OPSOMMING: 'n Verklarende skoolwoordeboek gerig op leerders in die junior sekondêre fase moet, in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks, gebruikersgerigte praktyke navolg om op kommunikatiewe en pedagogiese vlak waarde toe te voeg vir beide moedertaal- en niemoeder... see more

 

P.A. Mavoungou

ABSTRACT: Dictionaries contain lexicographic data whose occurrence is restricted to certain geo-graphical areas, subject fields, professions, etc. It is part of the duties of the lexicographer to give an account of such deviations to ensure a successful r... see more

 

Nomalanga Mpofu,Esau Mangoya

ABSTRACT: The bilingual Shona–English dictionary of biomedical terms, Duramazwi reUrapi neUtano, was compiled with the aim of improving the efficiency of communication between doctor and patient. The dictionary is composed of terms from both modern and tr... see more

 

Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza

ABSTRACT: This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the... see more

 

Pierre Ondo-Mebiame

RéSUMé: Le Dictionnaire fang–français et français–fang de Samuel Galley (1964) constitue une contribution importante dans l'histoire lexicographique du parler et, par sa nature biscopale, un intérêt pour les locuteurs du fang. Au demeurant, il présente un... see more

 

Mariza Steyn,Liezl Gouws

ABSTRACT: Within the South African lexicographical context, there have been several pleas for Afrikaans learner's and school dictionaries that incorporate innovative strategies and provide for specific identified target users and their particular problems... see more

 

Piet Swanepoel

ABSTRACT: Members of linguistic communities often have opposing beliefs about the existence of beings denoted by lexical items or about the truth of the attributes ascribed to entities. As very little research has been forthcoming in this regard, this art... see more

 

Herbert Ernst Wiegand

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: In diesem Beitrag werden die Begriffe eingeführt, die man benötigt, um das Datenakzessivitätsprofil von Printwörterbüchern genau beschreiben zu können. Es wird zwischen externer und interner Datenakzessivität unterschieden; erstere ist ob... see more

 

Matete Madiba,Lorna Mphahlele,Matlakala Kganyago

ABSTRACT: This case-study attempts to present a brief glossary of Northern Sotho medical terms. It is a follow-up of a similar case-study (Madiba, Mphahlele and Kganyago 2003), which was an attempt to capture and present Northern Sotho cooking terms. Case... see more

 

Christa Van der Walt,Hanelle Fourie

ABSTRACT: A learner's corpus is a body of writing for use by a student whose first language is not (in this case) English to improve his/her use of (in this case) academic scientific terminology. In this case study, a learner's corpus was developed for a ... see more

 

Emmanuel Chabata,Webster M. Mavhu

ABSTRACT: As noted by Béjoint (2000: 6), the main objective in dictionary-making is to define words and terms. This is especially the case if the fact is accepted that dictionaries are mostly con-sulted for word meaning and that, in the consultation proce... see more

 

Samukele Hadebe

ABSTRACT: The master plan of the ALLEX Project includes a Ndebele–Shona/Shona–Ndebele dictionary in its proposed dictionary projects. Bilingual dictionaries are common in Zimbabwe, especially earlier ones with the language pairs English–Ndebele/Shona and ... see more

 

Munzhedzi James Mafela

ABSTRACT: Venda, one of the minority languages in South Africa, has few dictionaries. All are translational bilingual dictionaries meant for dictionary users who are non-native speakers of the language. Dictionary users find it difficult to use the biling... see more

 

Gift Mheta

ABSTRACT: The article examines the impact of translation activities on the development of Afri-can languages in the multilingual Zimbabwean society. It analyses Shona musical terms created through translation processes and strategies such as borrowing, co... see more

 

Cornelias Ncube

ABSTRACT: This article discusses the loan-words in Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele (henceforth ISN), particularly looking at their acceptance and/or non-acceptance by the target users of ISN. In Zim-babwe, Ndebele shares the same linguistic environment with Eng... see more

 

Gilles-Maurice De Schryver,David Joffe

ABSTRACT: The addition of a restricted number of features to the dictionary (compilation) soft-ware TshwaneLex suffices to turn this application into a tool for the creation and maintenance of encyclopaedias. This article gives a brief overview of those e... see more

 

David Joffe,Gilles-Maurice De Schryver

ABSTRACT: The addition of a restricted number of features to the dictionary (compilation) soft-ware TshwaneLex suffices to turn this application into a terminology management system. This article gives a brief overview of those extra features, using the D... see more

 

Mariëtta Alberts

ABSTRACT: This year it has been ten years since the establishment of AFRILEX. After an expla-nation of what led to its forming, this article gives a short overview of its composition and activi-ties.Keywords: AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY (AFRILEX)... see more

 

Phillip Louw

In the mid 1990s the evolution of the English learner's dictionary reached a zenith with the appearance on the market of four advanced-level monolingual learners' dictionaries. Three of these were existing works, i.e. the Oxford Ad-vanced Learner's Dictio... see more

 

Corlietha Swart

Die Pharos van Alexandrië was 'n 152 m-hoë vuurtoring van wit marmer wat in 160 v.C. deur die ou Egiptenare aan die monding van die Nyl op die eiland Pharos gebou is. Pharos was, as vernaamste rigtinggewer en ligbaken, die voor-loper van alle latere vuurt... see more

 

Michaël Abecassis

Geoffrey Leech, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Mod-ern English Language at Lancaster University, has been the co-editor and co-author of much research on English grammar, and computational and corpus linguistics. During the past t... see more

 

Michael Klotz

The present volume is a collection of thirteen papers resulting from a sympo-sium on the computer-aided production and publication of dictionaries held in Heidelberg in 1988 (p. 4). It is subdivided into two sections, Basics (Grundlagen), which discusses ... see more

 

Gerda De Wet

Afrikaanse Speltoetser 2.1 en Woordafbreker vir Afrikaans is tans die nuutste in sy soort op die mark en kom van die Potchefstroomkampus van die Noordwes-Universiteit. Dit is 'n uitbreiding en verbetering op die vorige weergawe 2.0 en doen die beloftes wa... see more

 

Sieg Marx

Die Ekonomiese en Bedryfswoordeboek/Dictionary of Economics and Business (voor-taan afgekort as EBW) is 'n hersiene en vermeerderde uitgawe van die Ekono-miewoordeboek/Economics Dictionary (EW) van W.F.J. Steenkamp wat reeds in 1976 verskyn het. In die vo... see more

 

Michaël Abecassis

Gabriele Stein is professor of English linguistics at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and has published widely on lexicography and lexicology. The objective of this book is twofold: to compile a lexical core and to maximise the skills of language ... see more