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Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary
Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta
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Edited by:
Braj B. Kachru
Languages:
English, French, German
Published/Copyright:
1995
About this book
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.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years
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Bibliography of Publications
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Introduction
lxv - PART I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE
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Otomí Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences
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Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet
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Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources
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Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques dans le Trésor de la Langue Française
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Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary
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The Spindle or the Distaff
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The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words
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Lexical Cosmetics
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The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography
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The Current State of Chinese Lexicography
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The ‘New Historiography,’ the History of French and ‘Le Bon Usage’ in Nicot’s Dictionary (1606)
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On Chi̓-nam Ngọc-âm Gia̓̓i-nghĩa: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary
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Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave’s Lesclarcissement
127 - PART III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE
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Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries
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Marrism and Soviet Lexicography
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Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century
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Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe
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Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer
197 - PART IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM
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British and American Biases in English Dictionaries
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One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean
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Worldview and Verbal Senses
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De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec
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Taking It For Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries
253 - PART V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
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Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries
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The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts
275 - PART VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM
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The Learner’s Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective
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Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change
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Dictionaries for the People or for People?
315 - PART VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER
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Learners’ Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind
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The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father
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Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages
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How Many Meanings to a Word?
357 - PART IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS’ BIASES
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When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English)
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Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks
381 - PART Χ. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
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Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology
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Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries
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Afterword: Directions and Challenges
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Notes on Contributors
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Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen
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Backmatter
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eBook published on:
March 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9783110957075
Hardcover published on:
May 3, 1995
Hardcover ISBN:
9783484309647
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Reprint 2013
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Front matter:
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Tables:
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1 Frontispiz
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