The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years xv
6. Bibliography of Publications xxiii
7. Introduction lxv
8. PART I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE
9. Otomí Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences 3
10. Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet 9
11. Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources 29
12. Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques dans le Trésor de la Langue Française 35
13. Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary 41
14. The Spindle or the Distaff 53
15. The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words 61
16. Lexical Cosmetics 69
17. PART II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
18. The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography 75
19. The Current State of Chinese Lexicography 89
20. The ‘New Historiography,’ the History of French and ‘Le Bon Usage’ in Nicot’s Dictionary (1606) 103
21. On Chi̓-nam Ngọc-âm Gia̓̓i-nghĩa: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary 119
22. Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave’s Lesclarcissement 127
23. PART III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE
24. Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries 143
25. Marrism and Soviet Lexicography 153
26. Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century 171
27. Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe 181
28. Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer 197
29. PART IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM
30. British and American Biases in English Dictionaries 205
31. One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean 213
32. Worldview and Verbal Senses 223
33. De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec 237
34. Taking It For Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries 253
35. PART V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
36. Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries 261
37. The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts 275
38. PART VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM
39. The Learner’s Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective 283
40. Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change 297
41. Dictionaries for the People or for People? 315
42. PART VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER
43. Learners’ Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind 329
44. PART VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS
45. The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father 341
46. Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages 353
47. How Many Meanings to a Word? 357
48. PART IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS’ BIASES
49. When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English) 369
50. Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks 381
51. PART Χ. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
52. Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology 393
53. Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries 401
54. PART XI. AFTERWORD
55. Afterword: Directions and Challenges 417
56. Notes on Contributors 425
57. Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen 431
58. Backmatter 459