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
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.
Tanja Harteveld
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