The Oxford guide to practical lexicography / B.T. Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, B. T. S. (Beryl T. Sue)

Contributor:

Rundell, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicography.

Physical Description:

xii, 540 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogical components that make up an entry. The authors explain the relevance and application of recent linguistic theories, such as prototype theory and frame semantics, and describe the role of software in the manipulation of data and the compilation of entries. They provide practical exercises at every stage.

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography draws on materials developed by the authors over more than twenty years of teaching courses for publishing houses and universities in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and China, South Africa, Australia, the UK, and Europe. It will be welcomed everywhere by lexicographers, teachers of lexicography, and their students. It is also fascinating reading for all those interested in discovering how dictionaries are made.

Contents:

1.2 What lexicographers do 2

1.4 And finally ... 8

Part I Pre-lexicography

2 Dictionary types and dictionary users 17

2.1 The birth of a dictionary 18

2.2 Types of dictionary 24

2.3 Types of dictionary user 27

2.4 Tailoring the entry to the user who needs it 35

3 Lexicographic evidence 45

3.1 What makes a dictionary 'reliable'? 45

3.2 Citations 48

3.3 Corpora: introductory remarks 53

3.4 Corpora: design issues 57

3.5 Collecting corpus data 76

3.6 Processing and annotating the data 84

3.7 Corpus creation: concluding remarks 93

4 Methods and resources 97

4.2 The dictionary-writing process 97

4.3 Software 103

4.4 The Style Guide 117

4.5 Template entries 123

5 Linguistic theory meets lexicography 130

5.2 Sense relationships: similarities 132

5.3 Sense relationships: differences 141

5.4 Frame semantics 144

5.5 Lexicographic relevance 150

6 Planning the dictionary 160

6.2 Types of lexical item 163

6.3 The constituent parts of a dictionary 176

6.4 Building the headword list 178

6.5 Organizing the headword list 190

6.6 Types of entry 193

7 Planning the entry 200

7.2 Information in the various entry components 202

7.3 Entry structure 246

Part II Analysing the data

8 Building the database (1): word senses 263

8.2 Finding word senses: the nature of the task 269

8.3 The contribution of linguistic theory 275

8.4 Word senses and corpus patterns: context disambiguates 294

8.5 Practical strategies for successful WSD 296

9 Building the database (2): the lexical unit 317

9.1 The entry 318

9.2 Data 322

9.3 Using template entries in database building 379

Part III Compiling the entry

10 Building the monolingual entry 385

10.1 Preliminaries: resources for entry-building 386

10.2 Distributing information: MWEs, run-ons, and senses 394

10.3 Systems for handling grammar and labelling 399

10.4 Definitions: introduction 405

10.5 Definitions: content 413

10.6 Definitions: form 431

10.7 What makes a good definition? 450

10.9 Completing the entry 462

11 The translation stage 465

11.1 Transfer: translating the database 465

11.2 Equivalence factors 467

11.3 Finding equivalents 473

11.4 Putting translations into the database 479

12 Building the bilingual entry 484

12.1 Resources for entry-building 486

12.2 Distributing information throughout the entry 490

12.3 Writing the entry 499.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [515]-530) and index.

ISBN:

9780199277711

0199277710

9780199277704

0199277702

OCLC:

191923936