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Lexikos  

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Number Vol29 Year 2019

18 articles in this issue 

Vanessa González Ribao

The Lexicographic Treatment of Neologisms from the Perspective of Hispanophone Learners of GFL.On the basis of some instrumental verbs of communication such as mailen (to mail) or twittern (to tweet) we examined the lexicological information offered on ne... see more

 

Ami P. Jewalani,Myrna Laksman-Huntley,Harwintha Y. Anjarningsih

This study examined lexical cognitive word associations of Bahasa Indonesia native speakers. A word association task using 30 cue nouns was conducted with 45 educated adult native speakers of Bahasa Indonesia aged 20–29, after which the generated data was... see more

 

Mariusz Piotr Kaminski

Language has an inventory of words and expressions (e.g. especially, sort of, loosely speaking) used to communicate that what is being said is not exactly precise or complete. Referred to as hedges, they provide support for the conception of prototypicall... see more

 

Tinatin Margalitadze,George Meladze

There is a general lack of web-based tools for morphologically complex dead/old languages. Reading texts in such languages even with dictionaries is quite challenging. It is difficult to identify the lemma of a word form occurring in texts, which one coul... see more

 

Dion Nkomo

In this article, reflections are made on some specialized lexicographical/terminographical resources being produced in African languages. The resources are produced in order to contribute towards the intellectualization of those languages for expanded fun... see more

 

Anna Nel Otto,Jadé Blume

The Treatment of the Function Decoding in Different Types of Dictionaries.Dictionaries are especially consulted for the function of decoding. This article provides a systematic description of the influence that this function has on the dictionary structur... see more

 

Tvrtko Prcic

This paper proposes a new model for exploring the properties of English lexical affixes, based on exploiting the resources of English general-purpose dictionaries. Developed primarily for EFL university students and motivated by the highly inconsistent tr... see more

 

Bartosz Ptasznik,Robert Lew

The paper focuses on guiding devices in print monolingual dictionaries for learners of English. It aims to find answers to six research questions. The main aim is to investigate how the location of guiding devices within entries — starting from a new line... see more

 

Elsabé Taljard,Danie Prinsloo

Children's dictionaries are instrumental in establishing a dictionary culture and are the gateway to sustained and informed dictionary use. It is therefore surprising that very little attention is paid to these dictionaries in scholarly research. In this ... see more

 

Sven Tarp

This article botanizes in the history of lexicography trying to connect the dots and get a deeper understanding of what is happening to the discipline in the framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The objective is to suggest possible ways out of t... see more

 

Sven Tarp,Rufus Gouws

Contextualization, i.e. to provide solutions to users' information needs directly in the situation or context where these needs occur, played a significant role in the work of the Greek scribes who inserted glosses into manuscript copies of the works of H... see more

 

Marjeta Vrbinc,Alenka Vrbinc

This article focuses on the front matter texts of three Slovenian monolingual dictionaries: Dictionary of Standard Slovenian, Dictionary of Slovenian Synonyms and Dictionary of Legal Terminology. We asked thirty-two MA students of English at the Universit... see more

 

Ferdi Bozkurt

The aim of this article is to report the main trends of the research texts written in Turkish in the field of Turkish lexicography. This report will also provide an opportunity to discuss the main trends in Turkish lexicography and the areas that need to ... see more

 

Ibada Hilal

Creation of French Neologism in the Modern Arabic–French General Bilingual Dictionary. The purpose of this article is to investigate why and how the modern Arabic–French general bilingual dictionary could induce French neologisms corresponding to labeled ... see more

 

Jianhua Huang,Hai Xu

This article discusses how the Grand dictionnaire chinois–français contemporain (GDCFC, 2014), one of the largest Chinese–French dictionaries, was designed and compiled. Due to the limited resources in the language pair of Chinese and French, GDCFC was de... see more

 

Miroslawa Podhajecka

Review of Roderick McConchie and Jukka Tyrkkö (Editors). Historical Dictionaries in Their Paratextual Context.