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Teaching and Researching Lexicography
About This Book
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), with special reference to the perspectives of: * dictionary history
* dictionary criticism
* dictionary typology
* dictionary structure
* dictionary useThe final section of the book contains a variety of useful resources, including relevant related websites, a glossary of terms and a bibliography of cited dictionaries. This section can also be found on the Teaching and Researching Lexicography companion web-site.Written in a highly accessible style, Teaching and Researching Lexicography provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date and international coverage of this field in English, and will be of great interest to lexicographers, language teachers and applied linguists.
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IV | Resources |
Cyberlexicography is definable as âemploying the Internet to compile or create a dictionaryâ.(Michael Carr, 1997: 209)
10.1 Discussion groups/mailing lists
10.2 Information on dictionaries and other reference works
10.3 Dictionary archive
10.4 Bibliographical and library services
10.5 Book series
10.6 Journals
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- General Editors' Preface
- Author's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Series Page
- Section I Lexicography in practice and theory
- Section II Perspectives on dictionary research
- Section III Issues, methods and case studies
- Section IV Resources
- Bibliography
- Index