Pedagogical Specialised Lexicography

This stimulating new book, which combines dictionary research and linguistic knowledge, analyses the representation of meaning in business dictionaries from a pedagogical perspective. By examining in detail the macrostructure, mediostructure, access structure and microstructure of eight business dictionaries, this book presents interesting findings on how the dictionaries studied represent the ‘noun-term’, and on how they cope with the principles of new lexicography that aims at solving the needs of a specific type of user with specific types of problems related to a specific type of user situation. This exhaustive study, which makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of terminology, lexicography, and LSP teaching, defends a methodological confluence between LSP lexicography and terminology, and proposes some guiding principles towards the construction of pedagogically-oriented specialised dictionaries that must target students enrolled in LSP courses: Business English, Business Spanish, Business Translation, etc.

Dion Nkomo, University of Cape Town, South Africa, in Lexikos 19, 2009:
[...] "a scholarly theoretical rigorous account" of the representation of meaning in English and Spanish business dictonaries. It is certainly meant for every lexicographer, especially those working on LSP dictionaries, students of lexicography and all those involved in LSP pedagogy and translation studies. In particular, metalexicography is likely to draw theoretical and methodological insights from it for research on other lexicographical topics.