A Practical Guide to Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Practical Guide to Lexicography write by Piet van Sterkenburg. This book was released on 2003-07-17. A Practical Guide to Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography write by B. T. Sue Atkins. This book was released on 2008-06-19. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities world-wide. The book takes readers through building a corpus, analysing the data, and writing entries. Numerous exercises show the use of software to manipulate data and compile entries.
A Handbook of Lexicography
A Handbook of Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Handbook of Lexicography write by Bo Svensén. This book was released on 2009-08-13. A Handbook of Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a systematic survey of the theory and methods of dictionary-making (including the linguistic background): what types of dictionary there are, how different kinds of information are dealt with when compiling dictionaries, how this information is presented to users, and how dictionaries are actually used. It refers throughout to both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, giving a full account of the writing of definitions as well as of the selection and presentation of equivalents. The treatment of other types of information provided in dictionaries - such as pronunciation, inflection, constructions, collocations and idioms - is described systematically in individual chapters. The book also discusses dictionary structure, illustrations, the collection and selection of material, the management of dictionary projects, law and ethics in lexicographic work, and dictionary criticism. As well as looking at print lexicography, the author discusses the role of the Web, electronic corpora, electronic dictionaries, and compilation software used in dictionary-making. This is an important and practical guide to contemporary lexicography, designed for lexicographers, language students and teachers, translators and academics.
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography write by B. T. Sue Atkins. This book was released on 2008-06-19. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Practical Lexicography
Practical Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practical Lexicography write by Thierry Fontenelle. This book was released on 2008-01-24. Practical Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book collects and introduces some of the best and most useful work in practical lexicography. It has been designed as a resource for students and scholars of lexicography and lexicology and to be an essential reference for professional lexicographers. It focusses on central issues in the field and covers topics hotly debated in lexicography circles. After a full contextual introduction Thierry Fontenelle divides the book into twelve parts - theoretical perspectives, corpus design, lexicographical evidence, word senses and polysemy, collocations and idioms, definitions, examples, grammar and usage, bilingual lexicography, tools and methods, semantic networks, and how dictionaries are used. The book is fully referenced and indexed. The reader may be used independently for reference or as reading material for a course of study. It is an essential companion for The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography by Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell, published by OUP in 2008.
