46 articles in this issue
J.C.M.D. Du Plessis
Vanjaar se nommer van Lexikos is 'n omvangryke bundel. Dit bevat 26 artikels wat 'n wye reeks leksikografiese onderwerpe vanuit verskeie hoeke benader en wat 'n verskeidenheid woordeboeke in verskillende tale bespreek. 'n Spesiale ... see more
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
'n Totaal van vyf kontinentale verenigings vir die leksikografie is tans aktief. Alhoewel hierdie verdeling heeltemal kunsmatig is — omdat elke vereniging leksikografiese bydraes in enigeen van die wêreld se tale verwelkom — bly di... see more
Radia Benzehra,Don R. McCreary
ABSTRACT: The article sheds light on the necessity of finding new techniques to rank the users' preferences for English–Arabic dictionaries. The first section of the article reports the findings of an experimental technique devised... see more
Henning Bergenholtz,Rufus H. Gouws
ABSTRACT: In lexicography the concepts of prescription and description have been employed for a long time without there ever being a clear definition of the terms prescription/prescriptive and description/descriptive. This article ... see more
Herman L. Beyer
OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie artikel is om tot die metaleksikografiese gesprek oor skoolwoordeboeke as 'n tipe pedagogiese woordeboek by te dra. Die fokus is op kontekstuele bepalers wat by die beplanning van skoolwoordeboeke ... see more
Emmanuel Chabata,Dion Nkomo
ABSTRACT: In this article, an analysis of the utilisation of outer texts in recently compiled dictionaries of African languages is presented. The analysis is undertaken in the context of an upsurge of the compilation of dic... see more
Andy Chebanne
ABSTRACT: Khoisan speech communities are found in Southern Africa, with Botswana having the greatest ethnic and linguistic diversity. Living in small communities, the Khoisan have always found themselves in a situation of being eth... see more
Montse Corrius,Dídac Pujol
ABSTRACT: In view of the benefits of both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, a new type of dictionary which combines the strong points of a monolingual learner's dictionary with those of a bilingual dictionary was designed and... see more
Evie Coussé
Samenvatting: In deze bijdrage wordt een digitaal compilatiecorpus historisch Nederlands voorgesteld dat historische teksten uit verschillende bestaande bronnenverzamelingen samenbrengt tot een methodologisch verantwoorde steekproe... see more
Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,
ABSTRACT: Through a focus on word-combination analysis in bilingual dictionaries, this article presents the epistemological and methodological background for an ongoing research and editorial project aiming to produce an En... see more
ABSTRACT: Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures. This has led to the so-called ... see more
Jean-Nicolas De Surmont
RÉSUMÉ: Résoudre des problèmes théoriques constitue également résoudre des problèmes lexicaux. C'est ce que nous avons baptisé l'ingénierie lexicale, processus d'évaluation et de description d'une activité ou d'une discipline et ... see more
Guy-Modeste Ekwa Ebanéga
RÉSUMÉ: Le but de cet article est de montrer dans quelle mesure le dictionnaire peut être un outil d'enseignement des langues gabonaises. Dans un pays, comme le Gabon, caractérisé par une pluralité de langues locales et étrangères,... see more
Rufus H. Gouws,Liezl Potgieter
ABSTRACT: Samuel Johnson's dictionary (1755) confirmed both the status of dictionaries as authoritative sources of (linguistic) knowledge and the prescriptive approach in lexicography. This approach prevailed for a long time. ... see more
Sheila Hicks
ABSTRACT: A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAEHist) is rooted in quotation evidence. It contains just over 8 000 South African English entries, with about 45 000 citations to support those words incl... see more
Deny Arnos Kwary
ABSTRACT: Lexicographers working on finance dictionaries have not properly exploited the fast development of the Internet. This is revealed by the poor utilization of the access routes found in current Internet finance dictionaries... see more
Robert Lew
ABSTRACT: One finding of user studies is that information on meaning tends to be what dictionary users want most from their dictionaries. This is consistent with the traditional image of the dictionary as a repository of meanings o... see more
Mbulungeni Madiba,Dion Nkomo
ABSTRACT: The publication of a dictionary is regarded as the result of a lexicographic process. Three subtypes of a lexicographic process have been noted, namely the primary comprehensive, the secondary comprehensive and the dictio... see more
Minah Nabirye,Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
ABSTRACT: In this article, a case is presented of an existing dictionary that is aimed at users with a minimum of primary 7 education, now faced with demands from users in primary 1–3. The reason for this demand is the result of th... see more
Eventhough Ndlovu,Sanelisiwe Sayi
ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the treatment of polysemy and homonymy in general-purpose monolingual dictionaries with special reference to Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele. It was found that there are some inconsistencies in the treat... see more
Dion Nkomo
ABSTRACT: One of the main problems facing speakers and language practitioners of indigenous African languages is the shortage of appropriate dictionaries for a variety of purposes. This lack results in users consulting any availabl... see more
D.J. Prinsloo
OPSOMMING: Leksikografiese liniale vir Afrikaans en die Afrikatale is 'n dekade oud en word algemeen gebruik in die samestelling van woordeboeke. Die samestellers het dit tot dusver nie nodig geag om hierdie liniale te verifieer of... see more
Marcin Overgaard Ptaszynski
ABSTRACT: This article outlines a new approach to data access in electronic encyclopaedias. Contrary to most of the existing research, which treats access as a lexicographer-dominated, structural concept, access is viewed here as ... see more
Piet Swanepoel
ABSTRACT: This article focuses on some of the problems raised by Atkins and Rundell's (2008) approach to the design of lexicographic definitions for members of lexical sets. The questions raised are how to define and identify lexic... see more
Sven Tarp
ABSTRACT: Two main camps have been formed with regard to the philosophical and academic status of lexicography: one considering lexicography an independent scientific discipline, and the other opposing such a scientific status. Thi... see more
Sven Tarp,Rufus H. Gouws
OPSOMMING: Skoolwoordeboeke vorm 'n uitgebreide tipologiese kategorie binne die versameling woordeboeksoorte. Die uiteenlopende verskeidenheid teikengebruikers van skoolwoordeboeke vereis egter 'n duideliker tipologiese omskrywing ... see more
Herbert Ernst Wiegand
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: In diesem Beitrag wird die Bildung, Darstellung und Leistung von hybriden textuellen Strukturen, die akzessive Einträge aufweisen, am Beispiel von Wörterbuchartikeln behandelt sowie erklärt, welche Eigenschaften ... see more
Mei Xue
ABSTRACT: Nominal countability is problematic for foreign learners in production-oriented activities, especially for those whose native language does not have the corresponding function systems. In contrast to foreign learners' gre... see more
František Cermák
ABSTRACT: On the basis of sample analysis of a Czech adjective, a definition based on the data drawn from the Czech National Corpus (cf. Cermák and Schmiedtová 2003) is gradually compiled and finally offered, pointing at the drawba... see more
Patrick Hanks
ABSTRACT: This article gives a survey of the main issues confronting the compilers of monolingual dictionaries in the age of the Internet. Among others, it discusses the relationship between a lexical database and a monolingual ... see more
Mariëtta Alberts
ABSTRACT: Terminology plays a pivotal role in language development and the promotion of multilingualism. This article discusses the issue of multilingualism regarding terminology policies as seen from an African perspective. ... see more
Dina Ferreira,Theodorus Du Plessis
OPSOMMING: Die nuwe taalbestel in Suid-Afrika het tot gevolg gehad dat die ontwikkeling, die uitbouing, die bestuur en ook die verspreiding van terminologiese inligting in elf amptelike tale gedoen moet word. 'n Veranderde ... see more
Herman L. Beyer,André K. Faul
ABSTRACT: This article reports on a survey conducted in 2009 among students registering for their first year of study at the University of Namibia. The aim of the study was to determine these school leavers' concepts of 'a dictiona... see more
Atipat Boonmoh
ABSTRACT: This article reports on a small-scale study of Thai-speaking learners using pocket electronic dictionaries (PEDs) to read an English news article. It investigates how the subjects use their PEDs for reading comprehension.... see more
Munzhedzi James Mafela
ABSTRACT: Borrowing occurs when a language adds a word from another language to its own lexicon. Languages in neighbouring regions often borrow from each other. In South Africa, there are over nine indigenous languages, in addition... see more
V.M. Mojela
ABSTRACT: The influence of foreign languages in Sesotho sa Leboa, or Northern Sotho, results in borrowing, which ultimately leads to an increase in the vocabulary of Sesotho sa Leboa. The languages influencing developments in the ... see more
William Zivenge,Gift Mheta,Maxwell Kadenge
ABSTRACT: In this article, the phenomenon of Shona language change, its effects on lexicography and the need for a revised alphabet are discussed. Because of the defective Shona alphabet, lexicographers at the African Languages ... see more
Loránd-Levente Pálfi
ABSTRACT: The number of real handbooks dealing with lexicography and metalexicography is not, and has never been, impressive. When one looks at comprehensive handbooks and in addition those brought up to date, the number becomes ev... see more
ABSTRACT: The lexicographer Herbert Andreas Welker's book of more than 500 pages about pedagogical lexicography provides a panoramic overview of the various types of pedagogical dictionaries as well as the corresponding theoretical... see more
J.D. McLachlan
Hierdie resensie is die beskouing van 'n taalpraktisyn wat geen leksikograaf is nie. Die uitgangspunt is dus nie leksikografiese teorie nie en die werk word ook nie aan leksikografiese teorie beoordeel nie. Dit is die beskouing van... see more
A Way with Words is a Festschrift volume to honour the 70th birthday of Patrick Hanks. The volume is attractively printed on thick, good quality paper, hardbound in cloth and supplied with a cover sleeve (which, I admit in shame, I... see more
The Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Zulu and English (henceforth OZSD) is the latest addition to the bidirectional English–isiZulu bilingual dictionary market and is based on the same successful and prize-winning formula used f... see more
François Jaques
The fundamental aim of the study of the chansonnier vocabulary in French is to highlight the existence of a literary genre, namely the chanson. The author states that the chanson genre, as referred to in the Middle Ages, is charact... see more
Corlietha Swart
Die Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal is die omvangrykste projek ooit rondom die Afrikaanse woordeskat. Dit dokumenteer hierdie woordeskat in sy wydste omvang — nie slegs Standaardafrikaans nie, maar ook die ander variëteite van A... see more
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