Lexicography

The study of dictionaries.

"Lexicology is the science of the study of word whereas lexicography is the writing of the word in some concrete form i.e. in the form of dictionary. . . . lexicology and lexicography are very closely related, rather the latter is directly dependent on the former and may be called applied lexicology. " (Singh, 1982).

LSP lexicography is a subdiscipline specializing in subject dictionaries.  Computational lexicography is the study of term banks, electronic dictionaries and thesauri (cf., Atkins & Zampolli, 1994; Sabourin, 1994).

Literature:

Atkins, B. T. S. & Zampolli, A. (Eds.). (1994). Computational Approaches to the Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 

Bergenholtz, H.; Tarp, S. & Duva, G. (Eds.). (1995). Manual of specialized lexicography; the preparation of specialized dictionaries. Amsterdam, Netherlands & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. (Benjamins translation library. v. 12)

Bergenholtz, H. & Tarp, S. (1994). Manual i fagleksikografi. Udarbejdelse af fagordbøger - problemer og løsningsforslag. Herning: Systime.

Hartmann, R. R. K. (ed): The History of Lexicography. Papers from The Dictionary Research Centre Seminar at Exeter, March 1986. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publ. Co., 1986. (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Vol. 40);

Ingria, R.; Boguraev, B. & Pustejovsky, J. (1992). Dictionary/Lexicon. Vol. I, pp. 341-365 IN: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. I-II. Ed. by Stuart C. Shapiro. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Landau, S. I. (1984). Dictionaries. The Art and Craft of Lexicography. New York: The Scribner Press.

Sabourin, C. F. (1994). Computational lexicology and lexicography: Dictionaries,
Thesauri, Term Banks ; Analysis, Transfer and Generation. Dictionaries ; Machine Readable Dictionaries ; Lexical Semantics ; Lexicon Grammars: Bibliography. Vol. 1-2. Montreal : Infolingua.  
 

Singh, R. A. (1982). An Introduction to Lexicography. Manasagangotri, Mysore: Central Institute Of Indian Languages. (CIIL Occasional Monographs Series - 26).  http://www.ciil-ebooks.net/html/lexico/link4.htm

Tarp, S. (2006). Leksikografien i grænselandet mellem viden og ikke-viden. Generel leksikografisk teori med særlig henblik på lørnerleksikografi. Vol. 1-2. Århus: Handelshøjskolen i Århus, Center for Leksikografi. (Doctoral dissertation).
 

Zgusta, L. (Ed.). (1980). Theory and method in Lexicography: Western and Non-Western Perspectives. South Carolina: Hornbeam Press.

See also: Information science, related fields; Lexicon (Lifeboat for KO); Linguistic aspects of information
 

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 04-11-2006

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