Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific area of lexicography. The chapters share
broadly the same format, covering a history of the area, a critical discussion of its main …

This study highlights the fact that dictionaries are ideological texts that are very influential,
because millions of people regard them as sources of authority. It shows that existing …

Проблема объяснения значения лексических единиц в учебных целях существует ещѐ
со времен первых европейских словарей. По наблюдениям МА Марусенко, глоссарии …

Specialised dictionaries are defined here by the specialised nature of the subjects they treat,
focusing on particular subject fields, professional practices or even leisure activities such as …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify criteria according to which e-dictionaries can
be evaluated. Information technology can be used to enhance e-dictionaries, but if not done …

This chapter argues that the word definition is problematic as it implies the existence of word
boundaries, something that can easily be discarded. The term definition has been widely …

This paper advocates the convergence of terminology and lexicography, and illustrates this
view by presenting some of the steps taken for incorporating terminological resources and …

This chapter outlines lexicographic challenges related to the growing number of
computational applications for machine reception. High-quality lexicographic datasets are …

There is a problematic treatment of field specific words in both general language dictionaries
as well as specialised dictionaries, which in this paper is exemplified using the sports and …

The Afrikaanse idiome-woordeboek is a prototype e-dictionary of Afrikaans fixed
expressions developed with the intention to test the functionalities of the e-dictionary. This …