Overview

This book collects and introduces some of the best and most useful work in practical lexicography. It has been designed as a resource for students and scholars of lexicography and lexicology and to be an essential reference for professional lexicographers. It focusses on central issues in the field and covers topics hotly debated in lexicography circles. After a full contextual introduction Thierry Fontenelle divides the book into twelve parts - theoretical perspectives, corpus design, lexicographical evidence, word senses and polysemy, collocations and idioms, definitions, examples, grammar and usage, bilingual lexicography, tools and methods, semantic networks, and how dictionaries are used. The book is fully referenced and indexed. The reader may be used independently for reference or as reading material for a course of study. It is an essential companion for The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography by Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell, published by OUP in 2008.

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Author:   Thierry Fontenelle (, Microsoft Natural Language Group - Microsoft Corporation)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.898kg
ISBN:  

9780199292332

ISBN 10:   0199292337
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   24 January 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Editor's Introduction Part I Metalexicography, Macrostructure, Microstructure, and the Contribution of Linguistic Theory 2: Samuel Johnson (edited by Jack Lynch): The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language 3: Sue Atkins: Theoretical Lexicography and its Relation to Dictionary-Making 4: Juri Apresjan: Principles of Systematic Lexicography Part II On Corpus Design 5: Douglas Biber: Representativeness in Corpus Design 6: Gregory Grefenstette and Adam Kilgarriff: Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus Part III On Lexicographical Evidence 7: Charles J. Fillmore: 'Corpus Linguistics' or 'Computer-Aided Armchair Linguistics' Part IV On Word Senses and Polysemy 8: Patrick Hanks: Do Word Meanings Exist? 9: Adam Kilgarriff: I Don't Believe in Word Senses 10: Penny Stock: Polysemy part V On Collocations, Idioms, and Dictionaries 11: Anthony P. Cowie: Phraseology 12: Thierry Fontenelle: Using a Bilingual Dictionary to Create Semantic Networks Part VI On Definitions 13: Dwight Bolinger: Defining the Indefinable 14: Michael Rundell: More Than One Way to Skin A Cat: Why Full-Sentence Definitions Have Not Been Universally Adopted Part VII On Examples 15: Batia Laufer: Corpus-Based Versus Lexicographer Examples in Comprehension and Production of New Words Part VIII On Grammar and Usage in Dictionaries 16: Michael Rundell: Recent Trends in English Pedagogical Lexicography Part IX On Bilingual Lexicography 17: Sue Atkins: Then and Now: Competence and Performance in 35 Years of Lexicography 18: Alain Duval: Equivalence in Bilingual Dictionaries Part X On Tools for Lexicographers 19: Ken W. Church and Patrick Hanks: Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography 20: Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychly, Pavel Smrz, and David Tugwell: The Sketch Engine 21: Gregory Grefenstette: The Future of Linguistics and Lexicographers: Will There be Lexicographers in the Year 3000? Part XI On Semantic Networks and Wordnets 22: George Miller, Richard Beckwith, Christiane Fellbaum, Derek Goss, and Katherine J. Miller: Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database Part XII On Dictionary Use 23: Sue Atkins and Krista Varantola: Monitoring Dictionary Use References Index

Reviews

There is hardly a chapter in Practical Lexicography that would not repay reading and re-reading and re-reading. While other editors may have made somewhat different choices in selecting articles to reprint, Fontenelle has made a useful selection. In my estimation, Practical Lexicography is a volume worth having on one's bookshelf. It is also a suitable complement to handbooks of lexicography and would richly flesh out what students can find in a textbook. Edward Finegan, University of Southern California, writing for Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America This volume contains seminal papers that are much discussed, but not always available. Geoffrey Williams, International Journal Corpus Linguistics (translated from French) One of the great merits of the editor is to have highlighted the demanding nature of the lexicographers intellectual activity, by writing a brilliant introduction and collecting articles which are difficult to find and undoubtedly very valuable to anyone who is interested in dictionaries and dictionary-making. Michael Zock, TAL (Traitement Automatique du Langage) ...fascinating reading for people like me, who feel at home on lexicographical territory. The great merit of the editor, Thierry Fontenelle, is that he compiled a reader's digest from the huge mountain of publications in congress proceedings, in magazines and in books. Rik Schutz, Kernerman Dictionary News (translated from French)...a carefully-selected set of texts ...which is valuable to anybody who wishes to understand lexicography and to think about the future directions of the field. Together with Atkins and Rundell's Guide, the set will be an excellent introduction to the methodology and current practice of lexicography, opening vistas onto the creation of the dictionaries of the future. Geoffrey Williams, Revue Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee ...this reader is a fine selection, up-to-date, well presented and documented. Reinhard Hartmann, The International Journal of Lexicography

Author Information

Thierry Fontenelle is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft's Natural Language Group, where he works on the creation of dictionaries for proofing tools and natural language processing. He received his PhD from the University of Liège in 1995. In the 1990s, he collaborated on two bilingual dictionaries published by Cambridge University Press and managed an international project dealing with the extraction of collocations from dictionaries and corpora. His research interests include computational lexicography for natural language processing and proofing tools. He is also Past President of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Lexicography.

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