Theory and Practice of Specialised Online Dictionaries
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Theory and Practice of Specialised Online Dictionaries

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Theory and Practice of Specialised Online Dictionaries

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This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Function Theory of Lexicography, which originated at the Aarhus School of Business (Aarhus University). Function Theory considers dictionaries to be tools that are constructed for assisting specific users with punctual needs in specific usage situations, e.g. communicative-oriented situations and cognitive-oriented situations. The book's main focus is on defending the independent academic status of lexicography and its corollary: The process of designing, compiling and updating (specialised) online dictionaries needs a theoretical framework that addresses general and specific aspects. The former are common to all types of information tools, the latter are mainly dependent on the media for which the information tool is constructed and their specific target users. This books offers both aspects and moves from the highest level of abstraction to very detailed aspects of lexicographic work, e.g. how to convert an originally-conceived polyfunctional online dictionary into several monofunctional usage-based ones.
The book illustrates that the theory and the methodology currently used by advocates of the Function Theory of Lexicography offers better results than other approaches and therefore makes its case for proposing the Function Theory for terminological/terminographical work.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2014
ISBN
9783110368338
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. 1 Introduction
  5. 2 What is Specialised Lexicography?
  6. 3 Academic Status of Specialised Lexicography
  7. 4 Concept of Lexicographical Theory
  8. 5 General Theory of Specialised Dictionaries
  9. 6 Special Problems Related to Online Dictionaries
  10. 7 A Critical View of Terminography
  11. 8 An Analysis of Specialised Online Dictionaries
  12. 9 Designing, Making and Updating Specialised Online Dictionaries
  13. 10 Conclusions
  14. References
  15. Index