30 articles in this issue
J.C.M.D Du Plessis
Lexikos het altyd 'n tweeledige redaksionele beleid gehad: om artikels te publiseer nie net oor teoretiese kwessies nie, maar ook oor praktiese aspekte van die leksikografie. Dit is belangrik vir die teoretiserende metaleksikograaf om deeglik bewus te wee... see more
Danie Prinsloo
Met die 11de uitgawe van Lexikos en die 6de internasionale konferensie van die African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX) agter die rug, kan mens met reg trots wees op die suksesverhaal van AFRILEX en Lexikos. Lexikos verwerf toenemend nasionaal en in... see more
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver,B. Lepota
Abstract: Since May 2001 the Sepedi National Lexicography Unit officially started the actual dictionary-writing of a pioneering Explanatory Sepedi Dictionary (PyaSsaL). The compilation is undertaken within the theoretical framework of Simultaneous Feedbac... see more
Francis Matambirofa
Abstract: This article takes a multidisciplinary approach to African lexicographic practice. It has as its primary premise the assumption that without words there can be no dictionaries to compile and discuss. Owing to this fact, the article focuses on a ... see more
Hashan Al-Ajmi
Abstract: Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries for learners of English as foreign language differ from each other in many aspects. Among the differences are the types of information a dictionary provides outside the A?Z word list, especially in its intr... see more
Mariëtta Alberts
Abstract: Lexicography and terminography are specialised professions concerned with the compilation and editing of dictionaries. The lexicographer documents the words in the vocabulary of the general language whereas the terminographer documents the termi... see more
Udo L. Figge
Zusammenfassung: Nach einer "kognitiven Wende" in der Psychologie in der zweitenHälfte der sechziger Jahre haben auch Teile der Linguistik und der Psycholinguistik begonnen, sichkognitiv zu orientieren. Hier wird ein Modell zugrunde gelegt, nach dem sprac... see more
Rufus H. Gouws
Abstract: Dictionary consultation procedures often fail because the structure of a dictionary impedes the user from sufficient access to the data. Modern-day metalexicography has identified the access structure as one of the most important structural comp... see more
Kwena J. Mashamaite
Abstract: Bilingual dictionaries between South African languages have existed for more than three centuries (Smit 1996: 232). These dictionaries have English or Afrikaans as the source language and an African language as the target language. There has nev... see more
P.A. Mavoungou
Abstract: All the works in Mazuna lexicography have a common denominator: they are translation dictionaries biased towards French and were compiled by Catholic and Protestant missionaries or colonial administrators. These dictionaries have both strong and... see more
D.J.. Prinsloo
Abstract: Lexicographers increasingly acknowledge the enormous potential of electronic dictionaries. The great capacity and speed characteristic of electronic products, combined with enhanced query and data retrieval technology, pave the way to a new gene... see more
Piet Swanepoel
Abstract: Although recent dictionaries for the ESL market have been praised for their innovative design features, the prime concern of users, lexicographers and metalexicographers is the functional quality of the dictionary products provided for the marke... see more
Elsabé Taljard,Rachélle Gauton
Abstract: In response to a number of recent government publications on the promotion of science and technology training, the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art) initiated the compilation of a multilin... see more
Li Lan,Grahame T. Bilbow
Abstract: Language corpora are now indispensable to dictionary compilation. They help broaden the role of the dictionary from standardizing the vocabulary to recording a language. The trilingual corpus generated by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University giv... see more
Per Stille,BoA Wendt
Abstract: The Swedish Academy Dictionary is one of the world's largest dictionary projects. Work on it was started in 1884 and it will be completed by 2017. The dictionary describes the written standard language of Swedish from the beginning of the sixtee... see more
Anja Drame
Abstract: Languages are not static systems. They develop and change, add new items while others become outdated. These changes can be clearly observed in the lexicon especially. No language can afford to ignore or neglect foreign influence. Due to globali... see more
Nomalanga Mpofu
Abstract: In compiling bilingual dictionaries, lexicographers are mostly concerned with semantic equivalence. As a result, the practice of bilingual dictionary compilers is usually that of giving one-word equivalents. However, this equivalence is at times... see more
Geart van der Meer
Abstract: This article addresses the problem of "nonmorphological derivations" in English andits consequences for pedagogical lexicography, i.e. learner's dictionaries. The term "nonmorphologicalderivation" refers to cases such as sun — solar, moon — luna... see more
Roxana Ma Newman,Paul Newman
Abstract: Hausa, a major language of West Africa, is one of the most widely studied languagesof Sub-Saharan Africa. It has a rich lexicographic tradition dating back some two centuries. Sincethe first major vocabulary published in 1843 up to the present t... see more
Anna Nel Otto
Opsomming: Hierdie woordeboek deur P.A. Joubert sal bespreek word aan die hand van dievolgende aspekte: die volledigheid van die woordeboek, met inagneming van die teikengebruikeren die beginsels van outentisiteit en tipiesheid, die verwerking van woordeb... see more
Maria Smit
Abstract: This article discusses volume 1 of Wiegand's Wörterbuchforschung, which contains asection on the structure of the research field of lexicography, and a section on research on dictionaryuse. Wiegand firstly discusses different aspects of language... see more
Michael Benjamin
It was a phone-in programme on a local radio station, dealing with the overchargingof tourists who use taxis. The deejay was completely upset, interruptingthe CD she was playing. How could a trip which cost her R15 cost a touristR300? Eventually a taxi op... see more
Hans den Besten
Woordenboeken die van het Afrikaans naar het Nederlands vertalen of omgekeerd,zijn schaars en beperkt van omvang. Verder richten zij zich bij voorkeurop die woorden waar een vertaling nodig is. De "woordenboeken" waar ik opdoel, hebben daarom vaak iets we... see more
J.C.M.D. du Plessis
From 4 to 7 July 1994 the University of Leeds hosted the first InternationalMedieval Congress. Three sessions were dedicated to "Dictionaries of MedievalLanguages". They dealt with the following themes: "Projects", in which severaldictionary projects were... see more
Phillip Louw
In 2000 het 'n produk van Pharos verskyn wat die landskap van veral die Afrikaanse leksikografie ingrypend verander het. Pharos Woordeboeke/Dictionaries 5 in 1 (voortaan Pharos 5 in 1) bied vir die eerste maal 'n geïntegreerde digitale biblioteek van woor... see more
Van dieselfde uitgewer as Pharos Woordeboeke/Dictionaries 5 in 1 kom die PharosSpeller: Speltoetser en Woordafbreker vir Afrikaans (voortaan Pharos Speller). Ookmet hierdie produk bied Pharos innoverende taalleiding vir die Afrikaansetaalgebruiker. Pharos... see more
Gerhard van Wyk
In die eerste gedeelte van hierdie resensie gaan ek aan die hand van bepaalde artikels probeer aantoon in watter opsig die WNT as die grootste woordeboek ter wêreld beskou kan word. In sy artikel "Het WNT in cijfers" bied A. Moerdijk syfers aan om die omv... see more
In die voorwoord vermeld die redaksie dat die bundel saamgestel is uit lesings wat tydens 'n simposium ter viering van die voltooiing van die Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (WNT) gelewer is. Dié feesgeleentheid het op 3 Desember 1998 in Antwerpen plaa... see more
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