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The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography

Edited by Philip Durkin

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Brings together scholars and professional lexicographers from a range of traditions
Illustrated with numerous examples from English lexicography and the lexicography of other languages
Fills the gap between practical manuals of lexicography and historical studies

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The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography

Edited by Philip Durkin

1. Introduction, Philip Durkin
PART I: The Synchronic Dictionary
2. Dictionaries for general users: History and development; current issues, Henri Bejoint
3. Learners' dictionaries: History and development; current issues, Reinhard Heuberger
4. Bilingual dictionaries: History and development; current issues, Thierry Fontenelle
5. Constructing a corpus, Marc Kupietz
6. Interrogating a corpus, Iztok Kosem
7. Definition, Patrick Hanks
8. Explaining meaning in learners' dictionaries, Rosamund Moon
9. Explaining meaning in bilingual dictionaries, Arleta Adamska-Salaciak
PART II: Historical Dictionaries
10. Historical dictionaries: History and development; current issues, John Considine
11. Quotation evidence and definitions, Andrew Hawke
12. Using historical corpora and historical text databases, Laurel J. Brinton
13. Grammatical analysis and grammatical change, Edmund Weiner
14. Etymology, word history, and the grouping and division of material in historical dictionaries, Philip Durkin
PART III: Specialist Dictionaries
15. Place-name dictionaries, Tania Styles
16. Personal and surname dictionaries, Peter McClure
17. Pronouncing dictionaries, Catherine Sangster
18. Spelling dictionaries, Franziska Buchmann
19. Slang dictionaries, Julie Coleman
20. Etymological dictionaries, Eva Buchi
21. Dictionaries of dead languages, Richard Ashdowne
22. Diachronic and synchronic thesauruses, Christian Kay and Marc Alexander
23. Regional and dialect dictionaries, Clive Upton
24. Scientific and technical dictionaries; coverage of scientific and technical terms in general dictionaries, Holger Becker
PART IV: Specific Topics
25. The treatment of multi-word units in lexicography, Christiane Fellbaum
26. Lexicography and theories of lexical semantics, Dirk Geeraerts
27. Meaning relations in dictionaries: Hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy, antonymy, and contrast, Lynne Murphy
28. Identification of homonyms in different types of dictionaries, Anu Koskela
29. The representation of pronunciation in general dictionaries, Graham Pointon
30. Labelling and metalanguage, Charlotte Brewer
31. The exploitation of dictionary data and metadata, James McCracken
32. Illustrations in dictionaries; encyclopaedic and cultural information in dictionaries, Annette Klosa
33. Making decisions about inclusion and exclusion, Graeme Diamond
34. Description and prescription in dictionaries, Lynda Mugglestone
35. The practicalities of dictionary production; planning and managing dictionary projects; training of lexicographers, Valerie Grundy and Diana Rawlinson
36. The demands of users and the publishing world: Printed or online, free or paid for?, Hilary Nesi
37. National dictionaries and cultural identity: Insights from Austrian German and Canadian English, Stefan Dollinger
A chronology of major events in the history of lexicography

The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography

Edited by Philip Durkin

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Philip Durkin is Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and has led the dictionary's team of specialists in Etymology for the past fifteen years. He is the author of The Oxford Guide to Etymology (2009; paperback 2011), which has quickly become the standard work in the field, and of Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English (OUP 2014; paperback 2015).

Contributors:

Arleta Adamska-Salaciak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Marc Alexander, University of Glasgow
Richard Ashdowne, University of Oxford
Holger Becker, independent scholar
Henri Bejoint, University of Lyon
Charlotte Brewer, University of Oxford
Laurel J. Brinton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Eva Buchi, CNRS and University of Lorraine
Franziska Buchmann, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg
Julie Coleman, University of Leicester
John Considine, University of Alberta
Graeme Diamond, Oxford English Dictionary
Stefan Dollinger, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Philip Durkin, Oxford English Dictionary
Christiane D. Fellbaum, Princeton University
Thierry Fontenelle, Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union
Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven
Valerie Grundy, DivaLex
Patrick Hanks, University of Wolverhampton and University of the West of England
Andrew Hawke, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru
Richard Heuberger, University of Innsbruck
†Christian Kay, University of Glasgow
Annette Klosa, Institute for the German Language, Mannheim
Iztok Kosem, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies
Anu Koskela, De Montfort University, Leicester
Marc Kupietz, Institute for the German Language, Mannheim
Peter McClure, University of Hull
James McCracken, Oxford University Press
Rosamund Moon, University of Birmingham
Lynda Mugglestone, University of Oxford
M. Lynne Murphy, University of Sussex
Hilary Nesi, Coventry University
Graham Pointon, formerly Pronunciation Adviser for the BBC
Diana Rawlinson, DANTE project
Catherine Sangster, Oxford University Press
Tania Styles, Oxford English Dictionary
Clive Upton, University of Leeds
Edmund Weiner, Oxford English Dictionary

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The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography

Edited by Philip Durkin

Oxford Handbooks

Brings together scholars and professional lexicographers from a range of traditions
Illustrated with numerous examples from English lexicography and the lexicography of other languages
Fills the gap between practical manuals of lexicography and historical studies

$150.00

Hardcover

Published: 19 January 2016

736 Pages

9.7 x 6.7 inches

ISBN: 9780199691630