Despite Current Challenges: Lexicography has a bright future
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Abstract
This paper responds to some of the fears regarding the future of lexicography. By referring to a number of paradigm shifts in the history of lexicography, some of the innovative endeavours currently occurring in lexicography and a number of exciting future possibilities, the paper tries to show that there is hope for a bright lexicographical future. This paper maintains the division of lexicography into two components, namely dictionography and glossography, and places special emphasis on glossography and the role of glosses. It is shown that glosses played a significant role in the early phases of lexicography and have re-emerged in the digital era where their use leads to innovative lexicographical procedures. It is argued that new challenges demand new ways of thinking about lexicography.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Thematic Part: Nordic Lexicography [Nordische Lexikographie / Lexicographie nordique]
- Introduction
- Glancing back, looking forward: the Swedish Academy Dictionary completed after 130 years – now time for revision
- Sorry, shit and wow: a case study of the handling of interjections in three Nordic monolingual dictionaries
- Derivatives in Swedish dictionaries. The case of deverbal nouns in -ande
- Aligning grammatical information in linguistic resources published by the same authority. The case of participles in Swedish Academy dictionaries and grammar
- Danish Lexicography between Tradition and Innovation: Digital Dictionaries and Needs-adapted Glosses
- Ten good reasons to build the Norwegian ConstructiCon, a dictionary of grammar
- Non-thematic Part
- High and low level constructions in dictionaries and constructiCons: the interplay between lexical and syntactic information in CASA|Con
- Despite Current Challenges: Lexicography has a bright future
- Vocabularius incipiens teutonicum ante latinum. Konzeption und Geschichte eines deutsch-lateinischen Vokabulars des Spätmittelalters
- Im Netz der Wörter
- Lexicographical Resources for Mountaineers: A Usage Survey
- Lexicography in Higher Education
- EMLex 2024
