This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Function
Theory of Lexicography, which originated at the Aarhus School of
Business (Aarhus University). Function Theory considers
dictionaries to be tools that are constructed for assisting
specific users with punctual needs in specific usage situations,
e.g. communicative-oriented situations and cognitive-oriented
situations. The book's main focus is on defending the independent
academic status of lexicography and its corollary: The process of
designing, compiling and updating (specialised) online dictionaries
needs a theoretical framework that addresses general and specific
aspects. The former are common to all types of information tools,
the latter are mainly dependent on the media for which the
information tool is constructed and their specific target users.
This books offers both aspects and moves from the highest level of
abstraction to very detailed aspects of lexicographic work, e.g.
how to convert an originally-conceived polyfunctional online
dictionary into several monofunctional usage-based ones. The book
illustrates that the theory and the methodology currently used by
advocates of the Function Theory of Lexicography offers better
results than other approaches and therefore makes its case for
proposing the Function Theory for terminological/terminographical
work.
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