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Professor Zgusta's work in lexicography and linguistics proper is
built upon a multilingual command of linguistic theory, literary
history, the history of linguistics, and his experience as a
>practical< lexicographer. The topic under consideration may
be the organization and development of a standard variety of a
language; explorations of the consequences of linguistic theory on
the practical lexicographic applications in making dictionaries
that range from Ahtna to Zoque and Batad Ifuagao to Yolngu-Matha;
the method of definition in bilingual dictionaries; the state of
affairs in Russian lexicography; learner's dictionaries; ancient
Greek lexicography; pragmatics; scripts and morphological types;
the history of English lexicography; or behind the scenes at the
making of the Czech-Chinese dictionary. The reader will not only be
offered a careful and wide-ranging study of these important topics
in the discipline, but will be taken on a guided comparative and
historical tour that illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of
current practice and theory. His work reminds those linguists and
lexicographers who are locked into >paradigm< battles of the
Kuhnian kind that the wheel has already been invented. Most of the
articles in this volume have been updated. The editors have also
conflated six articles on the history of dictionaries into one
seamless narrative with connective tissue supplied by Zgusta.
Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes
on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the
broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they
strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of
lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published
in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main
themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on
aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure,
typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented
lexicographical documentation.
All known languages of the world have special lexical units called
names or proper names, whose purpose is to designate the
individuality of single persons, groups of people, families,
places, hills, mountains, rivers, and animals, as well as things
and institutions, etc. The study of names, also called onomastics
or onomatology, is not simply a subdiscipline of linguistics;
several other disciplines besides traditional philology cooperate
in the study. The universe of names as objects of research lacks
any clear-cut limits. The interest in names can be linguistic or
philosophical, historical or contemporary, theoretical or
practical, legal or political, ethnographic or religious; and in
each of these and other cases, interest can concentrate on a single
language, a group of languages, or a family of them. The present
volume is the work of more than 250 authors from 42 countries. This
fact alone shows how widespread the studies are. The three
languages used in the volume (English, French, German) give only a
partial impression of the supranational and transcultural character
of the names and their studies. Among the main areas on which the
volume concentrates are the following: Specifities of names as
linguistic signs, and their systematic analysis; Idiosyncrasies of
name studies in various countries in the past and present; The
multiplicity of names and their properties in as many languages as
was practical; Demonstration of the basic functional identity, yet
endless formal variety, of names as identifiers of individual
entities; The phenomena of change and assimilation that occur in
contact between two or more languages; The importance of names in
disciplines other than linguistics, such as history, law,
philosophy, theology, geography, archeology, and many others; Names
and their use in connection and interaction with other areas of
human activities in society; Numerous case studies showing the
variety of approaches and methods that must be applied if
microanalyses of sets of data are to be used for important
conclusions; Registers of names belonging to more than 50 languages
of the world, which should make accessible this whole plethora of
material and ideas, through their articulation (topical,
onomatological, etc.) and the arrangement of material; 23 chapters
which are systematically ordered according to specific
characteristics of names and their study.
Since about 4000 years ago, lexicography has been a component of
all cultures in which script was known. The path of its development
goes from word lists on clay tablets to computer stored data banks.
In our day, lexicography has a scientific and a non-scientific
form. The former form comprises works on various sources of
information and reference that pursue various important purposes,
such as: help in the acquisition of the mother tongue and of
foreign languages; in various types of acquisition of scientific
and technical knowledge; in translation; and in cultural exchange
and in ideological developments, either within one`s own or in a
foreign linguistic community. The social importance of lexicography
is occasionally taken cognizance of even in international politics.
The last two decades have witnessed an upsurge in interest in
lexicography. On the one hand, international contacts are becoming
more intimate in terms both of culture and economy; on the other
hand and as far as scientific considerations go, the lexicon is
being studied more within the framework of various theories,
problems of the vocabulary are being studied within the area of
foreign language teaching, and the application of the computer in
lexicography and in other fields has brought new problems, together
with many advantages. The increase in interest in the lexicon has
been accompanied by the emergence of the study of dictionaries as a
scientific discipline. This discipline studies the tools of
reference as to their forms, structures, the way they are used,
their history, and their criticism; ultimately, it is the study of
those reference tools in relation to the culture in which they are
embedded. The Encyclopedia deals with lexicography and with the
study of dictionaries; its three volumes cover the whole area in a
great wealth of detail but in a coherent way: authors have written
349 articles in English, French, and German. They are distributed
in 38 chapters. The Encyclopedia pursues the following goals: to
describe the lexicography of all the language families, with
particular attention given to the European languages and their
transplanted varieties, to develop a typology of the lexicographic
reference books, above all the linguistic dictionaries, within the
various cultures and societies, to provide the basis for the study
of the lexicon within a general theory of lexicography in relation
to the study of various functions of dictionaries in individual
cultures and in relation to the theories of the lexicon in various
linguistic schools of thought, to develop the methodology of
lexicographic work in all its phases, beginning with the
appointments of a lexicographic office and ending with the
application of the computer, to pinpoint areas in greatest need of
improvement both in the lexicographic practice of individual
territories and in the theory of lexicography, to offer a rich
bibliography both of dictionaries and of secondary literature, to
foster the development of lexicography into a discipline that while
pursuing practical goals will be suitable for being taught and
learned in a scientific way.
All known languages of the world have special lexical units called
names or proper names, whose purpose is to designate the
individuality of single persons, groups of people, families,
places, hills, mountains, rivers, and animals, as well as things
and institutions, etc. The study of names, also called onomastics
or onomatology, is not simply a subdiscipline of linguistics;
several other disciplines besides traditional philology cooperate
in the study. The universe of names as objects of research lacks
any clear-cut limits. The interest in names can be linguistic or
philosophical, historical or contemporary, theoretical or
practical, legal or political, ethnographic or religious; and in
each of these and other cases, interest can concentrate on a single
language, a group of languages, or a family of them. The present
volume is the work of more than 250 authors from 42 countries. This
fact alone shows how widespread the studies are. The three
languages used in the volume (English, French, German) give only a
partial impression of the supranational and transcultural character
of the names and their studies. Among the main areas on which the
volume concentrates are the following: Specifities of names as
linguistic signs, and their systematic analysis; Idiosyncrasies of
name studies in various countries in the past and present; The
multiplicity of names and their properties in as many languages as
was practical; Demonstration of the basic functional identity, yet
endless formal variety, of names as identifiers of individual
entities; The phenomena of change and assimilation that occur in
contact between two or more languages; The importance of names in
disciplines other than linguistics, such as history, law,
philosophy, theology, geography, archeology, and many others; Names
and their use in connection and interaction with other areas of
human activities in society; Numerous case studies showing the
variety of approaches and methods that must be applied if
microanalyses of sets of data are to be used for important
conclusions; Registers of names belonging to more than 50 languages
of the world, which should make accessible this whole plethora of
material and ideas, through their articulation (topical,
onomatological, etc.) and the arrangement of material; 23 chapters
which are systematically ordered according to specific
characteristics of names and their study.
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