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.
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