Theory and method in lexicography
Subtitle: western and non-western perspectives
By: edited by Ladislav Zgusta.
Contributors: Zgusta, Ladislav.
Series: Congress series
Publisher: Hornbeam Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Lexicography -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Lexicography -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Papers from a meeting organized by the Dictionary Society of America, and held at the University of Illinois, Urbana, on July 27, 1978.
Table of contents: title: Some remarks on the context of lexicography / Ladislav Zgusta; title: What makes a dictionary authoritative / Clarence Barnhart; title: The lexicographer as a mediator between linguistics and society / Yakov Malkiel; title: Dictionaries and the standardization process / Andrés Gallardo; title: The new Englishes and old dictionaries / Braj Kachra; title: Problems with headwords in Old English / Sharon Butler; title: The art of writing a definition that does not define / Sherman Kuhn; title: Theoretical and practical aspects of an associative lexicon for 20th century English / Adam Makkai; title: Computer mapping of lexical variants for DARE / Frederic Cassidy; title: Bicultural information in a bilingual dictionary / Dinh-Hoa Nguyen; title: Current trends in Indian lexicography / Sumitra Katre.