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The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography
B. T. Sue Atkins
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Description for The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography
Paperback. This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities world-wide. The book takes readers through building a corpus, analysing the data, and writing entries. Numerous exercises show the use of software to manipulate data and compile entries. Num Pages: 552 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 29. Weight in Grams: 914.
This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogic components ... Read more
This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogic components ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
913g
Number of Pages
554
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199277711
SKU
V9780199277711
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About B. T. Sue Atkins
Sue Atkins has worked as a lexicographer since 1966. She was General Editor of the first Collins-Robert English-French Dictionary series, co-designer of the Cobuild project and Lexicographic Adviser to Oxford University Press. She is currently Adviser to the FrameNet Project at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California. Michael Rundell ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography is a most powerful lexicographic book-length achievement...Rare are cases where science and art meet. Here is a instance!
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver LEXIKOS 18
...the most in-depth and up-to-date vademecum for how general dictionaries are compiled. Good job!
Reinhard Hartmann International Journal of Lexicography
...eminently practical, but never avoids theoretical issues...a ... Read more
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver LEXIKOS 18
...the most in-depth and up-to-date vademecum for how general dictionaries are compiled. Good job!
Reinhard Hartmann International Journal of Lexicography
...eminently practical, but never avoids theoretical issues...a ... Read more