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Henning Bergenholtz,Theo J.D. Bothma,Rufus H. Gouws

In the information society, it is much easier for someone to find relevant data if s/he has an information need because of the availability of databases and electronic information tools. In information science this topic is usually treated under the topic... see more

Dané Claassen

An evaluation of Pharos Aanleerderwoordeboek vir skole/Learner's Dictionary for Schools and Longman-HAT Afrikaans Dictionary and Grammar for English Speakers in an Afrikaans language learning course at university level. Research shows that a well-chosen d... see more

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

In this article a little-known dictionary manuscript from the 1930s, the Lexique kikongo-français by the Jesuit missionary Charles Polis, is analysed in great detail. Section 1 expounds on the goal and raison d'être of the study, Section 2 introduces the ... see more

André du Plessis,Marius Swart

In a time of proliferating electronic devices such as smartphones, translators of user interfaces are faced with new challenges, such as the use of existing words in new contexts or in their obtaining new meanings. In this article, three lexicographic ref... see more

Hanelle Fourie Blair

Equivalent Relations in Bilingual Dictionaries: Implications for the Database of an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of South African Sign Language and Afrikaans. This article is an extract from a more comprehensive theoretical framework in which a concept... see more

Rufus H. Gouws

Collocations represent an item type that is frequently presented and treated in an insufficient way in dictionaries. It is cumbersome for the user to distinguish between collocations and example sentences, and dictionaries often include no additional trea... see more

Lingling Li,Hai Xu

This article reports on the results of a study which investigated the use of an online dictionary by Chinese EFL learners in identifying the meanings of verb phrases. Thirty-two students with English as major subject participated in a meaning determinatio... see more

Xiqin Liu

With the popularity of electronic dictionaries, multimodality plays an increasingly important role in lexicography. To broaden the horizons of e-dictionary definitions, this article argues for the establishment of a new term, multimodal definition, as a k... see more

Joyce T. Mathangwane

This paper looks at how abbreviations and acronyms are treated in African language dictionaries in general compared to selected mainstream English dictionaries. Specifically, the study looks at their treatment in T.J. Otlogetswe's (2012) Tlhalosi ya Medi ... see more

Sandro Nielsen

Many general language dictionaries contain specialized terms, including legal terms relating to civil lawsuits. The existing literature provides general discussions of scientific and technical terms in ordinary dictionaries but does not specifically addre... see more

Thapelo J. Otlogetswe

This paper argues that the Setswana language is characterised by spelling variants which are a consequence of multiple factors. It considers spelling variants found amongst individual words as well as those found in multi-word expressions (MWEs). It argue... see more

D.J. Prinsloo

This article focuses on lesser-resourced languages for which only very limited corpora are available and how such relatively small and often unbalanced, raw corpora could be maximally utilized for lexicographic purposes to obtain similar results as for bi... see more

Michael Rundell

Editorial policies and lexicographic conventions have evolved over hundreds of years. They developed at a time when dictionaries were printed books of finite dimensions — as they have been for almost the whole of their history. In many cases, styles which... see more

Stefan J. Schierholz

Methods are used in every stage of dictionary-making and in every scientific analysis which is carried out in the field of dictionary research. This article presents some general considerations on methods in philosophy of science, gives an overview of man... see more

P.H. Swanepoel

The contributions in Klosa (2013a) provide information on various aspects of the design of morphological data for (German) language dictionaries. Bergenholtz and Gouws (2013), however, reject most of these contributions as sources lexicographers could use... see more

Elsabé Taljard

This article considers the importance of including various types of collocations in a terminological database, with the aim of making this information available to the user via the user interface. We refer specifically to the inclusion of empirical and ph... see more

Sven Tarp

This article discusses the plan for an online English–Spanish dictionary of business communication based on the function theory. After a short overview of lexicographical traditions within this field, it focuses on the philosophy behind the overall dictio... see more

Marjeta Vrbinc,Alenka Vrbinc

The information provided by labels is called diasystematic information, which gives restrictions and limitations concerning the use of a lexical item. The focus of the study, the findings of which are presented in this contribution, is five British monoli... see more

Herbert Ernst Wiegand

A New Type of Addressing: Positional Addressing at Indexical Items and Functional Item Additions. Following a brief reminder of the most important concepts from the metalexicographic discourse of the past twenty five years, a new type of addressing is int... see more

Mariëtta Alberts

The Centre for Political and Related Terminology in Southern African Languages (CEPTSA) published the revised and amended bilingual translating version of the Modern Political Dictionary (MPD) in 2011, and immediately started to define core political term... see more

Langa Khumalo

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is compiling a series of Language for Special Purposes (LSP) dictionaries for various specialized subject domains in line with its language policy and plan. The focus in this paper is the term extraction for words in... see more

Virginie Ompoussa,Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza

This paper is an account of an ongoing dictionary project. It aims to outline the main features of the planned dictionary. The project is a first of its kind in Gabonese lexicography. The current paper gives a description of the data collection and source... see more

Willem Botha

Review of Jana Luther, Fred Pheiffer en Rufus H. Gouws (Redakteurs). HAT. Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal.

Hanelle Fourie Blair

Review of Michael Mann (Red.). Digitale Lexikographie. Ein- und mehrsprachige elektronische Wörterbücher mit Deutsch: aktuelle Entwicklungen und Analysen.

Tanja Harteveld

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