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The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within the field. This Handbook features key case studies and cutting-edge contributions from an international range of practitioners, teachers, and researchers. Analysing the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries within the digital era, the 47 chapters address the core issues of:
The foundations of lexicography, and its interactions with other disciplines including Corpus Linguistics and Information Science;
Types of dictionaries, for purposes such as translation and teaching;
Innovative specialised dictionaries such as the Oenolex wine dictionary and the Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language;
Lexicography and world languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Chinese, and Indonesian;
The future of lexicography, including the use of the Internet, user participation, and dictionary portals.
The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography is essential reading for researchers and students working in this area.
List of contents
Introduction: lexicography in the Internet era Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera Part 1: Foundations of Lexicography 1. Lexicography as an independent science Sven Tarp 2. Dictionary management Henning Bergenholtz3. Dictionaries and access Rufus H. Gouws 4. Explaining meaning in lexicographical information tools Heidi Agerbo5. Dictionary criticism Sandro NielsenPart 2: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Lexicography6. Lexicography and interdisciplinarity Sandro Nielsen 7. Lexicography and applied linguistics Pam Peters and Trinidad Fernández8. Lexicography and corpus linguistics Gertrud Faaß 9. Lexicography and terminology Lynne Bowker 10. Dictionaries and language policy Dion Nkomo 11. Dictionaries and culture Przemyslaw Lozowski 12. Lexicography and natural language processing Aleš Horák and Adam Rambousek 13. Lexicography and information science Theo JD Bothma14. Domain ontologies Catherine Roussey, Nathalie Hernandez and Haïfa Zargayouna Part 3: Types of Dictionaries 15. The concept of dictionary Sven Tarp 16 4. Dictionaries for text reception Patrick Leroyer 17. Dictionaries for text production Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Henning Bergenholtz 18. Dictionaries for translation Laura Giacomini 19. Dictionaries to assist teaching and learning Reinhard Heuberger 20. Specialised dictionaries John Humbley 21. Terminological knowledge bases Anne CondaminesPart 4: Innovative Dictionaries22. Learner's dictionaries of English Julia Miller 23. Revising the Dictionary of Canadianis
About the author
Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera is Full Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain; Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; and Tutor at UNED, Spain.
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within this field in the digital era.
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"As a compendium of lexicographical knowledge, this handbook of lexicography can be said to be second to none as it rivals its predecessors both in scope and variety [...] The handbook’s comprehensiveness is reflected not only in the variety of topics, languages, and countries covered therein but also in the impressive array of its contributors."
- Yongwei Gao, Springer Nature 2018
