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ENGLISH-LANGUAGE

LEXICOGRAPHY
(ELL)
Key-note questions

What is a
ditiona!y"
What is its #$ae a%on&
the othe! !e'e!ene
(o!)s"
What distin&uishes one
ditiona!y '!o%
anothe!"
Key-note questions

What is the
%etast!utu!e o' a
ditiona!y"
What does ditiona!y
%a)in& atua$$y in*o$*e"
Ho( do (o!ds &et into
the ditiona!y"
Key-note questions

Ho( an I deide on the
qua$ity o' a ditiona!y"
What does it ta)e to +e a
$e,io&!a#he!"
What too$s does a
$e,io&!a#he! use"
Lexicography: the bigger picture
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
foreign language learning theory of reading
and teaching lexicography forensic speech
analysis
etc., etc.
(Crystal 1992:26)
Metalexicography and Practical Lexicography

source: Hartmann & James (199!


source: Hartmann & ames (199!)
"ypes of dictionaries (1)
Linguistic
... pro#ide intra- or
interlingual translations
of the meaning of a
head$ord and%or to
supply other language&
related information
(e.g. the spelling,
pronunciation,
le'ical%grammatical
paradigms, origin, etc.
of the search$ord)
... explicate concepts or
terminologies pertaining to
#arious (ranches of
)no$ledge such as
medicine, technology,
computing, (usiness, arts,
etc.
Non-linguistic
"ypes of dictionaries (2)
Paradigmatic

... most dictionaries
... dictionaries of idioms,
phrases, collocations, etc.
Syntagmatic
"ypes of dictionaries (*)
+Traditional

+Alphabetical
+Synchronic
Conceptual
Diachronic
Non-traditional
"ypes of dictionaries (,)
+General

+Monolingual
+Comprehension
Bilingual (mono!bi
directional"
Production
Specialized

???
H"M#$"%&
'ill in the (ollo)ing dictionary chart (or a dictionary that you normally
use* Mar+ )ith an ,x- the categories that apply* #xplain your
choices*
.ame o( dictionary:
/uthor0publishing house:
1ear o( publication:
linguistic non2linguistic
paradigmatic syntagmatic
traditional non2traditional
alphabetical conceptual
synchronic diachronic
general speciali3ed
monolingual bilingual
comprehension production

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