Practical Lexicography: A Reader

by Thierry Fontenelle

Overview

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 will also be an essential companion for The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography by Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell, to be published by OUP in 2008.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199292349
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/25/2008
Series:	Oxford Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Thierry Fontenelle is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft's Natural Language Group, where he works on the creation of dictionaries for proofing tools and natural language processing. He received his PhD from the University of Liège in 1995. In the 1990s, he collaborated on two bilingual dictionaries published by Cambridge University Press and managed an international project dealing with the extraction of collocations from dictionaries and corpora. His research interests include computational lexicography for natural language processing and proofing tools. He is also Past President of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Lexicography.

Table of Contents

1. Editor's IntroductionPart I Metalexicography, Macrostructure, Microstructure, and the Contribution of Linguistic Theory2. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson (edited by Jack Lynch)3. Theoretical Lexicography and its Relation to Dictionary-Making, Sue Atkins4. Principles of Systematic Lexicography, Juri ApresjanPart II On Corpus Design5. Representativeness in Corpus Design, Douglas Biber6. Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus, Gregory Grefenstette and Adam KilgarriffPart III On Lexicographical Evidence7. 'Corpus Linguistics' or 'Computer-Aided Armchair Linguistics', Charles J. FillmorePart IV On Word Senses and Polysemy8. Do Word Meanings Exist?, Patrick Hanks9. I Don't Believe in Word Senses, Adam Kilgarriff10. Polysemy, Penny Stockpart V On Collocations, Idioms, and Dictionaries11. Phraseology, Anthony P. Cowie12. Using a Bilingual Dictionary to Create Semantic Networks, Thierry FontenellePart VI On Definitions13. Defining the Indefinable, Dwight Bolinger14. More Than One Way to Skin A Cat: Why Full-Sentence Definitions Have Not Been Universally Adopted, Michael RundellPart VII On Examples15. Corpus-Based Versus Lexicographer Examples in Comprehension and Production of New Words, Batia LauferPart VIII On Grammar and Usage in Dictionaries16. Recent Trends in English Pedagogical Lexicography, Michael RundellPart IX On Bilingual Lexicography17. Then and Now: Competence and Performance in 35 Years of Lexicography, Sue Atkins18. Equivalence in Bilingual Dictionaries, Alain DuvalPart X On Tools for Lexicographers19. Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography, Ken W. Church and Patrick Hanks20. The Sketch Engine, Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychly, Pavel Smrz, and David Tugwell21. The Future of Linguistics and Lexicographers: Will There be Lexicographers in the Year 3000?, Gregory GrefenstettePart XI On Semantic Networks and Wordnets22. Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database, George Miller, Richard Beckwith, Christiane Fellbaum, Derek Goss, and Katherine J. MillerPart XII On Dictionary Use23. Monitoring Dictionary Use, Sue Atkins and Krista VarantolaReferencesIndex