A Practical Guide to Lexicography (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588113817 ISBN 13: 9781588113818

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.
A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for general and specific purposes. The domains of lexicography are outlined and its specific terminology is explained in the Glossary. Each chapter provides ample suggestions for further reading. Naturally, electronic dictionaries, corpus analysis, and database management are central themes throughout the book.
The book also "introduces" questions about the many types of definition, meaning, sense relations, and stylistics. And that is not all: those afraid to embark on a dictionary adventure will find out all about the pitfalls in the chapters on Design.
A Practical Guide to Lexicography introduces and seduces you to learn about the achievements, unexpected possibilities, and challenges of modern-day lexicography.

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume looks at such subjects as the form, contents and uses of dictionaries, descriptive lexicography, special types of dictionaries, linguistic corpora and the compilation of dictionaries, corpora for dictionaries, design of dictionaries and the realization of dictionaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1588113817
• ISBN 13: 9781588113818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 471
• Editor: Sterkenburg Piet Van