The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

✍ Scribed by B. T. Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 553
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogic components that make up an entry. The authors explain the relevance and application of recent linguistic theories, such as prototype theory and frame semantics, and describe the role of software in the manipulation of data and the compilation of entries. They provide practical exercises at every stage. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography draws on materials developed by the authors over more than twenty years of teaching courses for publishing houses and universities in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and China, South Africa, Australia, the UK, and Europe. It will be welcomed everywhere by lexicographers, teachers of lexicography, and their students. It is also fascinating reading for all those interested in discovering how dictionaries are made.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Abbreviations and symbols......Page 11
1.1 What this book is about......Page 14
1.2 What lexicographers do......Page 15
1.3 How this book works......Page 18
1.4 And finally …......Page 21
PART I: Pre-lexicography......Page 26
Introduction to Part I......Page 28
2 Dictionary types and dictionary users......Page 30
2.1 The birth of a dictionary......Page 31
2.2 Types of dictionary......Page 37
2.3 Types of dictionary user......Page 40
2.4 Tailoring the entry to the user who needs it......Page 48
3.1 What makes a dictionary ‘reliable’?......Page 58
3.2 Citations......Page 61
3.3 Corpora: introductory remarks......Page 66
3.4 Corpora: design issues......Page 70
3.5 Collecting corpus data......Page 89
3.6 Processing and annotating the data......Page 97
3.7 Corpus creation: concluding remarks......Page 106
4.2 The dictionary-writing process......Page 110
4.3 Software......Page 116
4.4 The Style Guide......Page 130
4.5 Template entries......Page 136
5.1 Preliminaries......Page 143
5.2 Sense relationships: similarities......Page 145
5.3 Sense relationships: differences......Page 154
5.4 Frame semantics......Page 157
5.5 Lexicographic relevance......Page 163
6.1 Preliminaries......Page 173
6.2 Types of lexical item......Page 176
6.3 The constituent parts of a dictionary......Page 189
6.4 Building the headword list......Page 191
6.5 Organizing the headword list......Page 203
6.6 Types of entry......Page 206
7.1 Preliminaries......Page 213
7.2 Information in the various entry components......Page 215
7.3 Entry structure......Page 259
PART II: Analysing the data......Page 272
Introduction to Part II......Page 274
8.1 Preliminaries......Page 276
8.2 Finding word senses: the nature of the task......Page 282
8.3 The contribution of linguistic theory......Page 288
8.4 Word senses and corpus patterns: context disambiguates......Page 307
8.5 Practical strategies for successful WSD......Page 309
8.6 Conclusions......Page 322
9 Building the database (2): the lexical unit......Page 330
9.1 The entry......Page 331
9.2 Data......Page 335
9.3 Using template entries in database building......Page 392
PART III: Compiling the entry......Page 394
Introduction to Part III......Page 396
10 Building the monolingual entry......Page 398
10.1 Preliminaries: resources for entry-building......Page 399
10.2 Distributing information: MWEs, run-ons, and senses......Page 407
10.3 Systems for handling grammar and labelling......Page 412
10.4 Definitions: introduction......Page 418
10.5 Definitions: content......Page 426
10.6 Definitions: form......Page 444
10.7 What makes a good definition?......Page 463
10.8 Examples......Page 465
10.9 Completing the entry......Page 475
11.1 Transfer: translating the database......Page 478
11.2 Equivalence factors......Page 480
11.3 Finding equivalents......Page 486
11.4 Putting translations into the database......Page 492
12 Building the bilingual entry......Page 497
12.1 Resources for entry-building......Page 499
12.2 Distributing information throughout the entry......Page 503
12.3 Writing the entry......Page 512
Bibliography......Page 528
C......Page 544
D......Page 545
E......Page 546
H......Page 547
L......Page 548
N......Page 549
Q......Page 550
S......Page 551
V......Page 552
Z......Page 553

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Лексикология, лексикография, терминоведение;Лексикография;