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Lexicographical order
The pursuit of lexicography is divided into two
related disciplines:
- Practical lexicography is the art or
craft of compiling, writing and editing
dictionaries.
- Theoretical lexicography is the
scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the
semantic relationships within the
lexicon (vocabulary) of a
language and developing theories of dictionary
components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
This is sometimes referred to as metalexicography.
A person devoted to lexicography is called a
lexicographer, famously defined in
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
(1755) as "A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that
busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification of words".
General lexicography focuses on the design, compilation, use
and evaluation of general dictionaries, i.e. dictionaries that
provide a description of the language in general use. Such a
dictionary is usually called a general dictionary or
LGP dictionary. Specialized lexicography focuses on the
design, compilation, use and evaluation of specialized
dictionaries, i.e. dictionaries that are devoted to a
(relatively restricted) set of linguistic and factual elements
of one or more specialist subject fields, e.g.
legal lexicography. Such a dictionary is usually called a
specialized dictionary or
LSP dictionary.
There is some disagreement on the definition of
lexicology, as distinct from lexicography. Some use
"lexicology" as a synonym for theoretical lexicography; others
use it to mean a branch of
linguistics pertaining to the inventory of words in a
particular language.
It is now widely accepted that lexicography is a scholarly
discipline in its own right and not a sub-branch of linguistics.
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Aspects
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Recommended reading
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Aspects
- Organizing the components of the dictionary
- Choose the appropriate structures for presenting the
data in the dictionary
- Selecting words
- Choosing
lemma forms for each word
- Defining words
- Organizing definitions
- Specifying pronunciations of words
- Labeling definitions and pronunciations for
register and dialect, where appropriate
Recommended reading
Introductory books on lexicography:
- Landau, Sidney, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of
Lexicography, 2nd ed., 2001
- Bergenholtz, Henning/Tarp, Sven (eds.): Manual of
Specialised Lexicography, 1995
- Bejoint, Henri, Modern Lexicography: An Introduction,
2000
- Hartmann, R. R. K., Teaching and Researching
Lexicography, 2001
- Hartmann, R. R. K./James, Gregory (comps.):
Dictionary of Lexicography, 1998/2001
- Nielsen, Sandro: The Bilingual LSP Dictionary,
1994
- Ooi, Vincent, Computer Corpus Lexicography, 1998
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/ell/Vincent/
- Jonathon Green, "Chasing the Sun - Dictionary-Makers and
the Dictionaries They Made," Pimlico,
ISBN 0-7126-6216-2
See also
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Lexicology
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Vocabulary
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List of lexicographers
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Dictionary
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Bilingual dictionary
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Monolingual learner's dictionary
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Specialized dictionary (Picture
dictionary,
Multi-field_dictionary,
Single-field dictionary,
Sub-field dictionary,
Maximizing dictionary,
Minimizing dictionary,
LSP dictionary)
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Glossary (defining
dictionary,
Core glossary)
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Specialised_lexicography
External links
Look up
lexicography in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Centre for Lexicography
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International Journal of Lexicography
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Dictionary Society of North America
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Euralex - European Association for Lexicography
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Afrilex - African Association for Lexicography
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Australex - Australasian Association for Lexicography
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Nordic Federation for Lexicography
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Asialex - Asian Association for Lexicography
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