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The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)

The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography By Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)

The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography by Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)

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The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography by Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)

The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. Each companion is a comprehensive reference resource featuring an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. Lexicography, as the practice of compiling dictionaries, has a long tradition that has been, for much of the time, largely independent of linguistics. The direct influence of linguistics on lexicography goes back around 50 years, though longer in the case of learners' dictionaries. The present volume aims to reflect on the research that has been and is being done in lexicography and to point the way forward. It tackles, among other topics, the critique of dictionaries in the electronic medium, the future of historical lexicography in the electronic mode with special reference to the online Oxford English Dictionary, and e-lexicography in general.

The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography Reviews

The wealth of different perspectives that the Companion offers is impressive ... [and] the picture that the collection presents of the overall situation of lexicography today appears comprehensive and accurate ... Beautifully edited and organized. * SKY Journal of Linguistics *
I expect this book will be a strong catalyst for lexicographers of every stripe. It presents contemporary research, summarized for review at a readable scale, with the happy outcome that both specialists and new researchers may reach a clearly contextualized understanding of the trajectories of sub-fields other than their own. -- Orion Montoya * Kernerman Dictionary News *
Jackson's Companion provides a current, comprehensive and highly accessible overview of the multi-faceted field of lexicography. Assuming little specialist knowledge, the book systematically sets out the key issues of the discipline to both students (its primary target audience) and experts. The topics of the 20 chapters have been well-chosen and the contributions carefully edited. I strongly recommend the Companion to everyone with an interest in lexicography! -- Reinhard Heuberger, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
If you expect an in-depth volume that includes state-of-the-art summaries of research and scholarship in major subareas of lexicography, your expectations are fulfilled by this book. It draws on the expertise of leading dictionary researchers and lexicographers from all over the world. Comprehensive and accessible, this will be an excellent resource for the students of lexicography. -- Yukio Tono, Professor in Corpus Linguistics,Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

About Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)

Howard Jackson is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the School of English at Birmingham City University, UK, where he taught descriptive linguistics for over forty years.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Howard Jackson 2. A History of Research in Lexicography, Paul Bogaards 3. Research Methods and Problems 3.1. Researching Lexicographic Practice, Lars Trap-Jensen 3. 2. Methods In Dictionary Criticism, Kaoru Akasu 3.3. Researching Users and Uses of Dictionaries, Hilary Nesi 4. Current Research and Issues 4.1. Using Corpora and the Web as Data Sources for Dictionaries, Adam Kilgarriff 4.2. Researching the Use of Electronic Dictionaries, Veronica Pastor and Amparo Alcina 4.3. Researching Historical Lexicography and Etymology, John Considine 4.4. Researching Pedagogical Lexicography, Amy Chi 4.5. Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries - Where Now?, Shigeru Yamada 4.6. Issues in Compiling Bilingual Dictionaries, Arleta Adamska-Salaciak 4.7. Issues in Compiling Dictionaries for African Languages, Danie J Prinsloo 4.8. Issues in Sign Language Lexicography, Inge Zwitserlood, Jette Hedegaard Kristoffersen and Thomas Troelsgard 4.9. Identifying, Ordering and Defining Senses, Robert Lew 4.10. A Theory of Lexicography - Is There One?, Tadeusz Piotrowski 5. New Directions In Lexicography 5.1. e-lexicography: The Continuing Challenge of Applying New Technology to Dictionary Making, Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera 5.2. The Future of Historical Dictionaries, With Special Reference to the Online OED and Thesaurus, Charlotte Brewer 5.3. The Future of Dictionaries, Dictionaries of the Future, Sandro Nielsen 6. Resources, Reinhard Hartmann 7. Glossary of Lexicographic Terms, Barbara Ann Kipfer 8. Annotated Bibliography, Howard Jackson Index

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NLS9781474237376
9781474237376
1474237371
The Bloomsbury Companion To Lexicography by Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)
Professor Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)
Bloomsbury Companions
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2015-04-23
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