Lexikos  

P. Harteveld

Foreword by the editor of Lexikos 4

Adelia Carstens

<b>Ideological Polysemy in Monolingual Afrikaans Dictionaries</b>Afrikaans dictionaries are often criticised for their biased treatment of ideologically charged lemmas and senses. In order to redress ideological imbalances in a sensible way, t... see more

David L. Gold

This article describes some problems in collecting and studying South African English vocabulary on the basis of non-South-African texts faced by a linguist who is a native speaker of American English. The questions are thus: Are non-South-African texts j... see more

R.H. Gouws

<b>Ostensive Addressing in Translation Dictionaries</b>From a semantic perspective the inclusion of translation equivalents can be regarded as the most important component of the lexicographical treatment in translation dictionaries. One seldo... see more

Igor A. Mel'chuk,Leo Wanner

In the present paper, we tackle the problem of the compact and efficient representation of restricted lexical co-occurrence information in the lexicon along semantic lines. The theoretical framework for this study is the <i>Meaning Text Theory</i... see more

Michael Schlaefer

<b>The Thesaurus Concept in Grimm's German Dictionary</b>Users often expect to find a complete collection of German vocabulary and quotations in Grimm's German Dictionary. These opinions result from different pretensions of Grimm lexicographer... see more

Christelle Trautmann

<b>Multivergence: A Network of Equivalence Relations</b>In a translation dictionary source language items are represented as lemmas and translation equivalents are provided for the source language items. Due to this lexicographical practice di... see more

Herbert Chimhundu

This article discusses aspects of an on-going lexical computing project at the University of Zimbabwe, known as ALLEX, the acronym for African Languages Lexical Project. ALLEX is a collaborative, multi-faceted, long-term, computer-aided lexicography proje... see more

F.J. Lombard

Lexicographer, dictionary user and linguist constitute three important role players in any lexicographical activity. In this presentation they are depicted as three sides or angles of a triangle. Unlike a real mathematical triangle where the three sides a... see more

W. Martin

<b>Lexicology as University Vocational Training</b>This article consists of two parts. Part one (paragraphs 1-3) deals with the notion 'lexicon', part two (paragraphs 4-7) introduces and presents the study programme 'Lexicology' such as it is ... see more

James S. Mdee

Swahili is a second language to many East and Central Africans, and a foreign language to its learners from Europe, America, Asia and other parts of Africa as well. Yet it lacks a monolingual Swahili learners' dictionary specifically designed for them. Th... see more

Adelia Carstens

<i>Verklarende Afrikaanse woordeboek</i>8 <b>as a Reflector of Norm Replacement</b>Norm replacement is seen as a process whereby a norm or a set of norms are gradually replaced by another norm or set of norms. Over a period --- eve... see more

Anna Nel Otto

In this review article the discussion concentrates on the purpose of learner's dictionaries, viz. to improve the communicative competence of a foreign language learner, and on usage guidance in learner's dictionaries. It is pointed out that target users s... see more

F.R. Gilfillan

Review of <b>T.T. Cloete (Redakteur), Leon Strydom, Heilna du Plooy en Anna-Marie Bisschoff (Medewerkers).</b> <i>Literêre terme en teorieë.</i>

Gerard Schuring

Review of <b>A.D. de V. Cluver.</b> <i>A Dictionary of Language Planning Terms.</i>

Fritz Ponelis

Review of <b>A.S. Coetser.</b> <i>Die Oxford Kortspelgids.</i>

Nina Overton-De Klerk

Review of <b>Gertruida M. du Plooy.</b> <i>500 Communication Concepts. English / Afrikaans.</i>

I.L. Vos

Review of <b>P. Harteveld (Red.), L.G. de Stadler en D.C. Hauptfleisch (Medewerkers).</b> <i>Woordkeusegids: 'n Kerntesourus van Afrikaans.</i>

Elaine Ridge

Review of <b>Rod Nesbitt.</b> <i>First illustrated dictionary for Namibian schools.</i>

P.A. Mbenzi

Review of <b>J.J. Viljoen, P. Amakali and M. Namuandi.</b> <i>Oshindonga / English. English / Oshindonga. Embwiitya. Dictionary.</i>

Jekura U. Kavari

Review of <b>J.J. Viljoen and T.K. Kamupingene.</b> <i>Otjiherero woordeboek dictionary embo romambo.</i>

D.C. Hauptfleisch

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