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Format: 1 online resource (527 p.)

Edition: Reprint 2013

ISBN: 3-11-095707-8

Series Statement: Lexicographica. Series maior : supplementary volumes to the International annual for lexicography = Suppléments à la Revue internationale de lexicographie = Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie, 64

Content: A pioneering volume addressing issues related to cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study with focus on selected Western and non-Western languages. A number of in-depth case studies illustrates the dominant role ideology and other types of bias play in the making of a dictionary. The volume includes invited papers of 40 internationally recognized scholars.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgements -- , Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years / , Bibliography of Publications / , Introduction / , PART I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE -- , Otomí Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences / , Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet / , Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources / , Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques dans le Trésor de la Langue Française / , Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary / , The Spindle or the Distaff / , The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words / , Lexical Cosmetics / , PART II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- , The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography / , The Current State of Chinese Lexicography / , The 'New Historiography,' the History of French and 'Le Bon Usage' in Nicot's Dictionary (1606) -- , On Chi̓-nam Ngọc-âm Gia̓̓i-nghĩa: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary / , Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement / , PART III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE -- , Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries / , Marrism and Soviet Lexicography / , Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century / , Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe / , Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer / , PART IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM -- , British and American Biases in English Dictionaries / , One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean / , Worldview and Verbal Senses / , De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec / , Taking It For Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries / , PART V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- , Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries / , The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts / , PART VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM -- , The Learner's Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective / , Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change / , Dictionaries for the People or for People? / , PART VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER -- , Learners' Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind / , PART VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS -- , The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father / , Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages / , How Many Meanings to a Word? / , PART IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS' BIASES -- , When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English) / , Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks / , PART Χ. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES -- , Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology / , Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries / , PART XI. AFTERWORD -- , Afterword: Directions and Challenges / , Notes on Contributors -- , Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-484-30964-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110957075