LEXeter '83: proceedings: Papers from the International Conference on Lexicography at Exeter, 9–12 September 1983

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Introduction TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE NOTE ON CONVENTIONS PART I. HISTORICAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE GENERAL DICTIONARY LEXICOGRAPHY AS AN ACADEMIC SUBJECT ON THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS OF A GENERAL THEORY OF LEXICOGRAPHY CARIBBEAN ENGLISH AS A CHALLENGE TO LEXICOGRAPHY LEXICOGRAPHY AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: CANADA AND THE WORLD CUP UPDATING A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TWO PRINCIPLES IN DEFINITIONS OF AN EXPLANATORY-COMBINATORIAL DICTIONARY THE CONSTRUCTION OF ENTRIES IN THE 'ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY1 (1668) OF JOHN WILKINS AND WILLIAM LLOYD CAN A DICTIONARY OF -ISMS BE AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY? THE COMMUNICATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOME LEXICOGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS THE HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF ENGLISH FRANCISCUS JUNIUS, 17TH-CENTURY LEXICOGRAPHY AND MIDDLE ENGLISH METHODS OF ORDERING SENSES WITHIN ENTRIES THE ETYMOLOGY OF EUROPEANISMS, OR: LEXICOGRAPHERS' DIFFICULTIES WITH 'LEXICOGRAPHER' THE LANGUAGE OF EXPLANATION IN MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES TOWARDS A THEORY OF LEXICOGRAPHY: PRINCIPLES AND/VS. PRACTICE IN MODERN ENGLISH DICTIONARIES POLYSEMY SEXISM IN DICTIONARIES PART II. BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE PEDAGOGICAL DICTIONARY TRANSLATIONAL EQUIVALENCE IN THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY EFL DICTIONARIES: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND PRESENT NEEDS THE PRONUNCIATION COMPONENT OF AN ENGLISH-DUTCH DICTIONARY RECENT AND FORTHCOMING CHINESE-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARIES FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA STUDYING DICTIONARY USE: SOME FINDINGS AND PROPOSALS FALSE FRIENDS INVIGORATED CONTEXTUAL!ZATION AND THE BILINGUAL LEARNER'S DICTIONARY 'ACTIVE' AND 'PASSIVE' BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES: THE SCERBA CONCEPT RECONSIDERED ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES IN A BILINGUAL COLLOQUIAL DICTIONARY TECHNICAL OR GENERAL: PROBLEMS OF VOCABULARY SELECTION IN A MEDIUM-SIZE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY LEXICAL FIELDS AND STEPWISE LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION IN A CONTRASTIVE ENGLISH-SPANISH VERB VALENCY DICTIONARY CONSTRUCTING AN ENTRY IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF STANDARD KISWAHILI SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS OF 'SET' AND SOME OF ITS FRENCH EQUIVALENTS PROBLEMS IN IMPROVING JAPANESE ENGLISH-LEARNERS' DICTIONARIES REFLECTIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF PREPOSITIONS IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A STATISTICAL APPROACH IMPROVING THE USABILITY OF THE FINNISH COMPREHENSION DICTIONARY THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY - HELP OR HINDRANCE? BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES AND THE NOTION OF 'LEXICAL CATEGORIES' IN CHINESE THE CULTURE-BOUND ELEMENT IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES PART III. COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE TERMINOLOGICAL DICTIONARY DICTIONARIES AND COMPUTERS Terminology and the technical dictionary COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR AN ANALYSIS OF TERMINOLOGICAL DATA IN A GENERAL DICTIONARY NOTES ON THE ARABIZATION OF THE TERMINOLOGY OF MODERN LINGUISTICS FROM DICTIONARY TO DATA-BASE TERMINOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN LINGUISTICS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEOLOGISMS TERMINOLOGY WORK IN NORWAY AND THE NORWEGIAN TERM BANK THREE TYPES OF TERMINOLOGIES ON ROOTING OUT WORDS WITH INFLATED FREQUENCIES IN WORD-COUNTS OF SPECIALIZED REGISTERS COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESSING OF CHINESE LEXICOGRAPHIC MATERIALS HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES AND THE COMPUTER - ANOTHER VIEW THE PRO'S AND CON'S OF A CONTROLLED DEFINING VOCABULARY IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY CONTRASTIVE CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF NOUN COMPOUND TERMS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH WITHIN A RESTRICTED, SPECIALIZED DOMAIN LEXICOGRAPHICAL TERMINOLOGY: SOME OBSERVATIONS THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY TO LIST, OR NOT TO LIST? COMPUTER-AIDED WORD LISTS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SETTING UP A LEXICOGRAPHICAL DATA-BASE FOR GERMAN UTILIZATION OF A COMMERCIAL LINGUISTIC DATA-BASE SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC STORAGE AND AUTOMATED PRODUCTION OF DICTIONARIES THE 'PROLEX' PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CITED DICTIONARIES LIST OF AUTHORS' AFFILIATIONS