Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them? The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these questions and addresses a wide range of issues: * the traditions of dictionary-making * the different types of dictionaries and other reference works (such as thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas and telephone directory) * the principles and concerns of lexicographers and other reference professionals * the standards of dictionary criticism and dictionary use. It is both a professional handbook and an easy-to-use reference work. This is the first time that the subject has been covered in such a comprehensive manner in the form of a reference book. All articles are self-contained, cross-referenced and uniformly structured. The whole is an up-to-date and forward-looking survey of lexicography.
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A COMBINING FORM (< Greek âbadâ) used to suggest âincorrectâ or âinappropriateâ usage, e.g.
caconym âa taxonomic name that is objectionable for sociolinguistic reasonsâ.
cacoepy
A pronunciation which is considered incorrect. Dictionaries are often consulted as arbiters in such cases.
CORRECTNESS, ORTHOEPY.
Cahiers de lexicologie
A periodical, published in France since 1959, devoted to topics in LEXICOLOGY and LEXICOGRAPHY.
calendar
A type of REFERENCE WORK which arranges the information provided in relation to the days of the year. In institutions of higher education, the term is often used for a CATALOGUE of academic programmes.
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
Academic Calendar (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hong Kong, 1997.
calepin(e)
A term used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to mean a âdictionaryâ or ânote-bookâ, from the anglicised form of [Ambrosius] Calepinus (c. 1435-c. 1509), the author of Ambrosii Calepini Bergomatis Dictionarium (Reggio, 1502).
calque
LOAN TRANSLATION.
canonical form
The base form under which several variants of a word or phrase can be cited as a HEADWORD for a
dictionary entry. Compilers and users of dictionaries follow standard conventions about which affixes may have to be removed from a word stem to determine the form under which the word can be cited or looked up. To take an English example, the word arm(s), which occurs in a number of variants such as arm, arms, arming and armed, needs to be shorn of its inflectional endings before it can be established as a headword: arm (noun) âbody partâ or arm (verb) âto provide with weaponsâ. Dictionaries differ in their treatment of arms (pl. noun) âweaponsâ, regarding it either as a sub-sense of arm (noun) or giving it separate headword status. In morphologically complex languages, the determination of the canonical form has to take account of such phenomena as âmutationâ (e.g. syntactically conditioned word-initial or word-medial variation) and âsandhiâ (phonologically conditioned orthographic variation).
LEMMATISATION.
Landau 1984, SÀrkkÀ 1984, ISO 1990.
cant
ARGOT.
catachresis
The improper use of a word or phrase, particularly through inaccurate or inappropriate denotation. Dictionaries are often consulted as arbiters in cases of such alleged misuse.
DESIGNATION.
catalogue
A type of REFERENCE WORK giving, in alphabetic or thematic order, a set of items such as lists of objects with prices or bibliographical references in a library.
BIBLIOGRAPHY, DIRECTORY.
Stanley Gibbons Simplified Catalogue. Stamps of the World, London & Ringwood, 1995.
A memorable expression, especially one used by a well-known person or on the radio or television, e.g. Iâm only here for the beer! Catch-phrases often become CLICHĂS or quickly go out of fashion.
