1st Edition

Teaching and Researching Lexicography

By Reinhard R.K. Hartmann Copyright 2001
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Who compiles dictionaries and other reference works? Which are used by whom? How do they achieve their purpose? Lexicography is a very important subject and the product of lexicography, the Dictionary, is a valuable resource in language learning. Teaching and Researching Lexicography explains the relations between lexicographic practice (dictionary-making) and theory (dictionary research),... Read more

Preface

SECTION I: LEXICOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE AND THEORY

1. The Lexicographic Scene
2. Lexicography as Practice
3. Lexicography as Theory

SECTION II: PERSPECTIVES ON DICTIONARY RESEARCH

4. Historical and Critical Perspectives
5. Structural and Typological Perspectives
6. The User Perspective

SECTION III: ISSUES, METHODS AND CASE STUDIES

7. Issues in Dictionary Research
8. Methods in Dictionary Research
9. Case Studies

SECTION IV: RESOURCES

10. Information Sources, including Websites
11. Glossary of Terms in Lexicography and Dictionary Research

Bibliography.
Cited dictionaries.
Other references.
Index.

Biography

R. R. K. Hartmann is Reader in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Dictionary Research Centre at the University of Exeter.