Lexicography in the Borderland Between Knowledge and Non-Knowledge

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ISBN: 9783484391345 | 3484391340
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Copyright: 4/28/2008

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The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners' dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated. Book jacket.

Preface	p. 1
The philosophical and scientific status of lexicography	p. 4
Lexicography - the science of dictionaries	p. 4
Competing concepts	p. 7
Lexicographical theory	p. 9
The relationship of lexicography to other sciences	p. 12
General lexicographical theory: other traditions and paradigms	p. 14
Other traditions	p. 14
Scerba	p. 17
Hausmann	p. 21
Kromann et al	p. 25
Wiegand	p. 28
General lexicographical theory: function theory	p. 33
The genesis of function theory	p. 33
The formation of a theory	p. 34
New foundations	p. 37
General principles	p. 39
Main elements of lexicographical functions	p. 43
Situations of potential users	p. 44
Cognitive situations	p. 45
Communicative situations	p. 47
Proofreading and marking	p. 50
Characteristics of potential users	p. 54
Needs of potential users	p. 56
Assistance from dictionaries	p. 58
Sub-stages in the communication process	p. 59
Production and reception in foreign languages	p. 59
Translation	p. 60
Proofreading and marking	p. 64
Discussion of communicative sub-stages: provisional conclusions	p. 69
Specification of user needs	p. 69
Lexicographical needs for text reception in mother tongue	p. 70
Lexicographical needs for text production in mother tongue	p. 71
Lexicographical needs for text proofreading in mother tongue	p. 72
Lexicographical needs for marking of texts in mother tongue	p. 74
Provisional summary	p. 75
Lexicographical needs in cognitive situations	p. 78
Lexicographical functions	p. 80
Definition of a lexicographical function	p. 81
Definition of a genuine purpose	p. 88
Criticism of Wiegand's definitions	p. 88
Lexicographical data	p. 97
Definitions	p. 97
Types of lexicographical data	p. 100
Lexicographical structures	p. 101
Lexicographical typology	p. 113
General theory for learner's dictionaries	p. 125
Some problems in the previous literature	p. 125
The relationship between language knowledge, language skills and communication	p. 131
The learner's lexicographically relevant characteristics	p. 136
The learner's mother tongue	p. 137
The learner's command of their mother tongue	p. 138
The learner's foreign-language skills	p. 138
The learner's general cultural knowledge	p. 141
The learner's knowledge of culture in the foreign-language area	p. 142
The learner's reasons for learning a foreign language	p. 143
The learner's own attitude to the foreign-language learning process	p. 143
The learner's geographical location during the learning process	p. 144
The learner's use of their mother tongue during the learning process	p. 145
The learner's use of a specific didactic method	p. 145
The learner's use of a specific textbook or a didactic system	p. 146
The learner's learning of a specific subject at the same time	p. 146
Learner typology	p. 146
The learner's situations and lexicographical needs	p. 146
Communicative situations and needs	p. 147
Reception of the foreign language	p. 147
Production in the foreign language	p. 149
Translation	p. 154
Translation into the foreign language	p. 158
Translation from the foreign language	p. 161
Cognitive situations and needs	p. 163
Summary: functions and typology of learner's dictionaries	p. 166
Specific theories for learner's dictionaries	p. 172
Lemmata	p. 173
Indications of meaning	p. 184
Reception in the foreign language	p. 186
Knowledge of the foreign language's vocabulary	p. 195
Production directly in the foreign language	p. 198
Semantic relationships	p. 199
Free production in the foreign language	p. 200
Knowledge of the foreign language's vocabulary	p. 202
Inflection morphology	p. 211
Word formation	p. 219
Production in the foreign language	p. 221
Reception in the foreign language	p. 225
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