Lexikos  

J.C.M.D. du Plessis

Foreword by the editor of Lexikos 7

Rufus Gouws

Foreword by the president of Afrilex

Adelia Carstens

Developing human potential and actively promoting science and technology are among the priorities of the present South African government. Significant progress in these areas can only be made if relevant education and training are provided timeously. Surv... see more

Ilse Feinauer

Arguments in metalexicographic literature on the status of subword and multiword lexical items resulted in a more comprehensive lemmatic treatment of these lexical items in the latest editions of Afrikaans descriptive dictionaries, e.g. <i>Woordeboe... see more

R.H. Gouws,D.J. Prinsloo

One of the great challenges to compiling better dictionaries for the African languages is to develop sound strategies and procedures for planning the structure of the dictionaries. In this regard all the structural components of a dictionary, including th... see more

Mohamed Helmy Heliel

<b>Abstract:</b> Recently three dictionaries of Arabic synonyms were published with the aim of helping Arabic learners, writers and translators. Though Classical Arabic lexicography distinguishes itself in the field of synonymy, Modern Standar... see more

Francis E. Knowles

This paper is concerned with the language professional discourse communities use for their internal communication. The characteristics of these languages for special purposes (LSPs) are many and varied, as well as being underresearched. The focus adopted ... see more

James Salehe Mdee

This paper compares and contrasts dictionary use and needs of language learners at the University of York in the United Kingdom and at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Five aspects are discussed in this study viz. dictionaries used, instructio... see more

Jeanne Pienaar,G.D. Oosthuizen

There has recently been an increasing awareness of the importance of large collections of texts (corpora) used as resources in machine translation research. The process of creating or extending machine translation lexicons is time-consuming, difficult and... see more

Catherine Travis

This paper presents a semantic analysis of three English words denoting positive character traits, namely <i>kind</i>, <i>considerate</i> and <i>thoughtful</i>. These three words are closely related, and the differences... see more

M. Lynne Murphy

This article examines the treatment of racial labels in monolingual English dictionaries of South Africa. Considering past controversies regarding racist language in Afrikaans dictionaries and considering the changing role of English in democratic South A... see more

Takashi Sakurai,Ernst F. Kotzé

<b>A Contrasting View on Bilingual Dictionaries in South Africa and Japan</b>Both dictionaries that combine Afrikaans and African languages and dictionaries that combine Japanese and Western languages incorporate unrelated languages. In this r... see more

Mariëtta Alberts

This article deals with the project on legal terminology in the African languages. It focuses on terminology aspects relating to the coining of terms for the legal profession. Terminology development in South Africa has been hampered by a number of sociol... see more

Vincent M. Chanda

Sign language as used by deaf communities, is a real and fully-fledged human language, not based on any spoken language, and not universal in the sense of there being only one sign language worldwide. A deaf community is a linguistic minority, but a lingu... see more

Joep Kruijsen,Jacques van Keymeulen

The article on the three dictionaries of the southern Dutch dialects is divided into two parts. In the first part Joep Kruijsen (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) treats the history of the <i>Woordenboek van de Brabantse Dialecten</i> (... see more

J.G. Kruyt,M.W.F. Dutilh

The use of text corpora has increased considerably in the past few years, not only in the field of lexicography but also in computational linguistics and language technology. Consequently, corpus data and expertise developed by lexicographical institution... see more

Louis Jacobus Louwrens

There currently exists a noticeable tension in South Africa between the political aim of one homogeneous South African nation on the one hand and the autonomy each language deserves in practice according to the constitution on the other. The real developm... see more

Edmund Simon Christopher Weiner

African languages have contributed and continue to contribute a great many vocabulary items to English, both directly and via the intermediary of other non-African languages. The <i>OED Additions Series</i> contains 63 words of African origin,... see more

Michael Schlaefer

<b>Problems Concerning the Choice of Text Materials for an Electronic Thesaurus: Conference Report</b>At the invitation of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen a colloquy was held on 1 and 2 November 1996. Experts in lexicographical st... see more

Liesel Hibbert

The <i>DSAE</i> (<i>A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles<i>) embraces linguistic diversity by including many Afrikaans lexemes and lexemes from African languages. In the advertising pamphlet the dictionary... see more

Phillip Adriaan Louw

Bilingual translation dictionaries play an important part in modern user orientated lexicography in South Africa. An affordable bidirectional pocket translation dictionary, such as <i>Klein Woordeboek / Little Dictionary</i>, with English and ... see more

Ewa Clayton

Review of <b>R.R.K. Hartmann (Ed.).<b/> <i>Solving Language Problems: From General to Applied Linguistics.</i>

Piet Swanepoel

Review of <b>Hausmann, F.J., O. Reichmann, H.E. Wiegand en L. Zgusta (Reds.).</b> Worterbücher: Ein internationales Handbuch zur Lexikographie / Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography / Dictionnaires: Encyclopedie inter... see more

G.S. van der Merwe

Review of <b>G.H. Kocks (Samesteller), J.P. Vording, A. Beugels, H. Bloemhof, e.a. (Medewerkers).</b> <i>Woordenboek van de Drentse Dialecten, A-L.</i>

Herman L. Beyer

Review of <b>P.A. Mbenzi and D.N. Iithete.</b> <i>English-Oshindonga Dictionary for Primary Schools</i>

Britta Zawada

Review of <b>National Terminology Services of the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology.</b> <i>Dictionary of Geology / Geologiewoordeboek</i>

E. Botha

Publikasieaankondigings / Publication Announcements

Lexikos Lexikos

The full volume