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Number Vol23 Year 2013

34 articles in this issue 

Mariëtta Alberts

The spelling and orthographic rules of a language are very important for compilers of general and technical dictionaries. When compiling a dictionary, the lexicographers and termi­no­graphers should adhere to these rules. The word-forming principles of a ... see more

 

Mariëtta Alberts,Nina Mollema

The need for unambiguous communication in the theoretical and applied fields of human activity, such as the legal profession, is constantly increasing. Terminologists and subject specialists are focused on the provision of unambiguous source- and target-l... see more

 

Henning Bergenholtz,Rufus H. Gouws

Word formation in the dictionary belongs, at the latest since the contribution of Mug­dan (1984), to the topics frequently discussed by lexicographers. Unfortunately the results have not always been satisfactory. This applies both to the formulation of le... see more

 

Henning Bergenholtz,Jesper Skovgård Nielsen

Fifty years ago, no lexicographer used a database in the work process. Today, almost all dictionary projects incorporate databases. In our opinion, the optimal lexicographical database should be planned in cooperation between a lexicographer and a databas... see more

 

Edgard Maillard Ella

The Macrostructural Treatment of Borrowings from French in Local Gabo­nese Dictionaries. Local populations often pragmatically borrow words from other languages, which they need in theirs. This applies mostly when two populations with different lan­guages... see more

 

Hanelle Fourie Blair

Dictionaries and Deaf Users — Current Problems and the Need for Better Solutions. Sign language lexicography is a branch of lexicography that has until now been a largely vague, unimportant area. The development of sign language lexicography has in the pa... see more

 

Rufus H. Gouws

The Lexicographic Presentation and Treatment of Fixed Expres­sions.In their decisions regarding the inclusion of fixed expressions in their dictionaries it is important for lexicographers to be familiar with the status of fixed expressions as fully-fledge... see more

 

Vida Jesenšek

The Lexicographic Example in Paremiography. Forms and Func­tions. This paper discusses the lexicographic example within the scope of paremiography (prov­erb lexicography).The focus is on criteria for the identification, determination and selection of thos... see more

 

Deo Kawalya,Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

In this article we explore the possibility of amalgamating the semasiological (i.e. alpha­betical), onomasiological (i.e. conceptual) and visual approaches to dictionary compilation, here termed an alphaconceptual+ (i.e. alphaconceptual 'plus') dictionary... see more

 

Inge Kosch

Dictionary consultation and compilation is a two-way engagement between two par­ties, namely a dictionary user and a lexicographer. How well users cope with looking up words in a Bantu language dictionary and to what extent their expectations are met, dep... see more

 

Patrick Leroyer

The specialised lexicographic treatment of oenology and viticulture usually consists in the compiling of articles describing the language of wine in general language dictionaries, or presenting professional knowledge of wine in specialised multi-field dic... see more

 

Robert Lew,Marcin Grzelak,Mateusz Leszkowicz

We use modern eye-tracking technology to scrutinize the process of sense and equivalent selection in polysemous bilingual entries. Our study subjects, intermediate and advanced Polish learners of English, consulted 26 Polish-to-English dictionary pages pr... see more

 

Paul Achille Mavoungou

This article is a survey study of lexicographic activities with regards to the French lan­guage as it is spoken in Gabon, a French-speaking country in central Africa. The French language as it is spoken in Gabon does not only refer to Gabonisms (mostly it... see more

 

Julia Miller

Idioms, sayings and proverbs (referred to here as 'phrasemes'), are a central part of the English language. However, it is often difficult for learners of English as an Additional Lan­guage (EAL) to choose the correct headword when looking for such expres... see more

 

V.M. Mojela

Theoretically the Northern Sotho language is made up of almost 30 dialects while practically it is not so, because the standard language was formed from very few of its dialects. As a result, even today the language has no corpus which is balanced or repr... see more

 

Minah Nabirye,Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

This article recounts the genesis, growth and turbulent events that accompanied the compilation of the Eiwanika ly'Olusoga, that is, the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary. Contrasting academia with the trade, legacy with state-of the-art dictionary compilatio... see more

 

Sandro Nielsen,Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera

This article describes the theoretical foundation of the accounting dictionaries as well as its practical results. Furthermore, the implementation of the project shows how the constant interaction of lexicographical theory with practical dictionary work o... see more

 

Dion Nkomo,Zola Wababa

This article presents a panoramic and critical overview of isiXhosa lexicography and its impact on the intellectualisation of this indigenous South African language. The history of isi­Xhosa lexicography dates back more than two centuries. However, there ... see more

 

D.J. Prinsloo

A Critical Examination of Dictionaries with Amalgamated Lem­ma­lists.The recently published Groot Woordeboek (Afrikaans en Nederlands), also known as ANNA, is the first dictionary with an amalgamated lemmalist based on the model of Martin and Gouws (2000)... see more

 

Sven Tarp

There is little doubt that lexicography has experienced important progress during the years, especially when one compare the lexicographical works from the various centuries. How­ever, history should not be viewed as an ever-growing progress but as a proc... see more

 

Sven Tarp,Leonel Ruiz Miyares

One of the reasons why many publishing houses hesitate when allocating resources to the development of more advanced concepts of school dictionaries for first-language learners is the relatively poor sales and corresponding profits coming from this catego... see more

 

Michele F. van der Merwe

Criteria for Dictionary Workbooks in Afrikaans. This article reflects on the role of dictionary workbooks in the skills training of users in Afrikaans. Dictionary workbooks are usually directed at a specific school or learners' dictionary and in this way ... see more

 

Marjeta Vrbinc,Alenka Vrbinc

This article deals with the inclusion and treatment of scientific and technical vocabu­lary in the third, fourth and eighth editions of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. The comparison of these editions is based on a random sample of 50 pages from OAL... see more

 

Tom Ruette,Freek Van de Velde

Moroccorp: Ten Million Words from two Moroccan Dutch Chat Chan­nels.In this article we introduce a new corpus of computer-mediated communication in Dutch by Maroccan-Dutch language users, consisting of ten million words of chat material. We treat the back... see more

 

Kadima Batumona Adi Gilbert

Lexicography and Language Teaching Related to Immigration: Note on the Sociolinguistic Context of the Development of the Finnish–Lingala–French Dictionary. The Finnish–Lingala–French Dictionary discussed in this article was compiled within the context of ... see more

 

Rachel Locker McKee,David McKee

The Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (ODNZSL), launched in 2011, is an example of a contemporary sign language dictionary that leverages the 21st century advan­tages of a digital medium and an existing body of descriptive research on the lan... see more

 

Thapelo J. Otlogetswe

This paper presents the design elements of a recently published monolingual Setswana dictionary, Tlhalosi ya Medi ya Setswana (Otlogetswe 2012), the fourth main Setswana monolingual dictionary to appear. The paper situates the dictionary within a recent, ... see more

 

Bienvenu Sene Mongaba

Dictionary of Chemistry in Lingála for Kinshasa Students.In well-documented languages, the lexicographer aiming to make a specialized dictionary will pro­cess an available corpus to extract data (candidate terms, definitions and exam­ples). This approach ... see more

 

Dídac Pujol,Montse Corrius

This article aims to demonstrate the hypothesis that the use of native culture (C1) in EFL learners' dictionary definitions and/or examples is useful in the comprehension of the looked-up words. This is done by means of a survey involving more than 100 lo... see more

 

Valeria Caruso

Two recently published books outline the main issues of the current debate on lexi­cography. The first, e-Lexicography edited by Fuertes-Olivera and Bergenholtz in 2011, presents the standpoints of the lexicographical function theory on the future develop... see more

 

Inge Kosch

The Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Northern Sotho and English (De Schryver 2007) is a welcome addition to dictionaries that have been compiled for school use in particular. Its novelty and appeal lie in the fact that the lemmas and Northern Sotho min... see more

 

Henri Béjoint

Review of Hanks, Patrick. Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations.