CAN A DICTIONARY OF -ISMS BE AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction III
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS XIX
4. PREFACE XXIII
5. NOTE ON CONVENTIONS XXV
6. PART I. HISTORICAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE GENERAL DICTIONARY
7. LEXICOGRAPHY AS AN ACADEMIC SUBJECT 3
8. ON THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS OF A GENERAL THEORY OF LEXICOGRAPHY 13
9. CARIBBEAN ENGLISH AS A CHALLENGE TO LEXICOGRAPHY 31
10. LEXICOGRAPHY AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: CANADA AND THE WORLD CUP 42
11. UPDATING A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION 51
12. TWO PRINCIPLES IN DEFINITIONS OF AN EXPLANATORY-COMBINATORIAL DICTIONARY 58
13. THE CONSTRUCTION OF ENTRIES IN THE 'ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY1 (1668) OF JOHN WILKINS AND WILLIAM LLOYD 67
14. CAN A DICTIONARY OF -ISMS BE AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY? 73
15. THE COMMUNICATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOME LEXICOGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS 80
16. THE HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF ENGLISH 87
17. FRANCISCUS JUNIUS, 17TH-CENTURY LEXICOGRAPHY AND MIDDLE ENGLISH 92
18. METHODS OF ORDERING SENSES WITHIN ENTRIES 101
19. THE ETYMOLOGY OF EUROPEANISMS, OR: LEXICOGRAPHERS' DIFFICULTIES WITH 'LEXICOGRAPHER' 109
20. THE LANGUAGE OF EXPLANATION IN MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES 117
21. TOWARDS A THEORY OF LEXICOGRAPHY: PRINCIPLES AND/VS. PRACTICE IN MODERN ENGLISH DICTIONARIES 124
22. POLYSEMY 131
23. SEXISM IN DICTIONARIES 141
24. PART II. BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE PEDAGOGICAL DICTIONARY
25. TRANSLATIONAL EQUIVALENCE IN THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY 147
26. EFL DICTIONARIES: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND PRESENT NEEDS 155
27. THE PRONUNCIATION COMPONENT OF AN ENGLISH-DUTCH DICTIONARY 165
28. RECENT AND FORTHCOMING CHINESE-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARIES FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 176
29. STUDYING DICTIONARY USE: SOME FINDINGS AND PROPOSALS 183
30. FALSE FRIENDS INVIGORATED 190
31. CONTEXTUAL!ZATION AND THE BILINGUAL LEARNER'S DICTIONARY 199
32. 'ACTIVE' AND 'PASSIVE' BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES: THE SCERBA CONCEPT RECONSIDERED 207
33. ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES IN A BILINGUAL COLLOQUIAL DICTIONARY 216
34. TECHNICAL OR GENERAL: PROBLEMS OF VOCABULARY SELECTION IN A MEDIUM-SIZE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY 221
35. LEXICAL FIELDS AND STEPWISE LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION IN A CONTRASTIVE ENGLISH-SPANISH VERB VALENCY DICTIONARY 226
36. CONSTRUCTING AN ENTRY IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF STANDARD KISWAHILI 237
37. SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS OF 'SET' AND SOME OF ITS FRENCH EQUIVALENTS 242
38. PROBLEMS IN IMPROVING JAPANESE ENGLISH-LEARNERS' DICTIONARIES 253
39. REFLECTIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF PREPOSITIONS IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A STATISTICAL APPROACH 258
40. IMPROVING THE USABILITY OF THE FINNISH COMPREHENSION DICTIONARY 268
41. THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY - HELP OR HINDRANCE? 274
42. BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES AND THE NOTION OF 'LEXICAL CATEGORIES' IN CHINESE 282
43. THE CULTURE-BOUND ELEMENT IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES 289
44. PART III. COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE TERMINOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
45. DICTIONARIES AND COMPUTERS 301
46. Terminology and the technical dictionary 315
47. COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR AN ANALYSIS OF TERMINOLOGICAL DATA IN A GENERAL DICTIONARY 327
48. NOTES ON THE ARABIZATION OF THE TERMINOLOGY OF MODERN LINGUISTICS 333
49. FROM DICTIONARY TO DATA-BASE 339
50. TERMINOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN LINGUISTICS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEOLOGISMS 345
51. TERMINOLOGY WORK IN NORWAY AND THE NORWEGIAN TERM BANK 352
52. THREE TYPES OF TERMINOLOGIES 355
53. ON ROOTING OUT WORDS WITH INFLATED FREQUENCIES IN WORD-COUNTS OF SPECIALIZED REGISTERS 362
54. COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESSING OF CHINESE LEXICOGRAPHIC MATERIALS 371
55. HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES AND THE COMPUTER - ANOTHER VIEW 377
56. THE PRO'S AND CON'S OF A CONTROLLED DEFINING VOCABULARY IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY 385
57. CONTRASTIVE CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF NOUN COMPOUND TERMS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH WITHIN A RESTRICTED, SPECIALIZED DOMAIN 395
58. LEXICOGRAPHICAL TERMINOLOGY: SOME OBSERVATIONS 401
59. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY 413
60. TO LIST, OR NOT TO LIST? COMPUTER-AIDED WORD LISTS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 420
61. SETTING UP A LEXICOGRAPHICAL DATA-BASE FOR GERMAN 425
62. UTILIZATION OF A COMMERCIAL LINGUISTIC DATA-BASE SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC STORAGE AND AUTOMATED PRODUCTION OF DICTIONARIES 430
63. THE 'PROLEX' PROJECT 435
64. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CITED DICTIONARIES 441
65. LIST OF AUTHORS' AFFILIATIONS 450