The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics Series

The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within the field. This Handbook features key case studies and cutting-edge contributions from an international range of practitioners, teachers, and researchers. Analysing the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries within the digital era, the 47 chapters address the core issues of:

• The foundations of lexicography, and its interactions with other disciplines including Corpus Linguistics and Information Science;





• Types of dictionaries, for purposes such as translation and teaching;





• Innovative specialised dictionaries such as the Oenolex wine dictionary and the Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language;





• Lexicography and world languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Chinese, and Indonesian;





• The future of lexicography, including the use of the Internet, user participation, and dictionary portals.

The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography is essential reading for researchers and students working in this area.

Introduction: lexicography in the Internet era Pedro A. Fuertes-OliveraPart 1: Foundations of Lexicography 1. Lexicography as an independent science Sven Tarp 2. Dictionary management Henning Bergenholtz 3. Dictionaries and access Rufus H. Gouws 4.Explaining meaning in lexicographical information tools Heidi Agerbo 5. Dictionary criticism Sandro Nielsen Part 2: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Lexicography 6.Lexicography and interdisciplinarity Sandro Nielsen 7. Lexicography and applied linguistics Pam Peters and Trinidad Fernández 8. Lexicography and corpus linguistics Gertrud Faaß 9. Lexicography and terminology Lynne Bowker 10. Dictionaries and language policy Dion Nkomo 11. Dictionaries and culture Przemyslaw Łozowski 12. Lexicography and natural language processing Aleš Horák and Adam Rambousek 13. Lexicography and information science Theo JD Bothma 14. Domain ontologies Catherine Roussey, Nathalie Hernandez and Haïfa ZargayounaPart 3: Types of Dictionaries 15. The concept of dictionary Sven Tarp 164. Dictionaries for text reception Patrick Leroyer 17. Dictionaries for text production Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Henning Bergenholtz 18. Dictionaries for translation Laura Giacomini 19. Dictionaries to assist teaching and learning Reinhard Heuberger 20. Specialised dictionaries John Humbley 21. Terminological knowledge bases Anne Condamines Part 4: Innovative Dictionaries 22. Learner’s dictionaries of English Julia Miller 23. Revising the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles: World Englishes and linguistic variation in real-time Stefan Dollinger 24. FrameNet Josef Ruppenhofer, Hans C. Boas & Collin F. Baker 25. The Online Dictionary of NZ Sign Language: A case study of contemporary sign language dictionaries Rachel McKee and David McKee 26. The Alicante dictionaries Jose Mateo 27. The Oenolex wine dictionary Patrick Leroyer 28. The Accounting Dictionaries Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Marta Niño Amo 29. Wordnik Erin McKeanPart 5: World Languages, Lexicography and the Internet 30.African lexicography in the Internet era Danie Prinsloo, Jacobus Prinsloo and Daniel Prinsloo 31. Arabic lexicography in the Internet era Karlheinz Mörth 32. Chinese lexicography in the Internet era Heming Yong and Jing Peng 33. English lexicography in the Internet era Howard Jackson 34. French lexicography in the Internet era Paul Achille Mavoungou 35. German lexicography in the Internet era Petra Storjohann 36. Hindi lexicography in the Internet era Parman Singh and Arimardan Kumar Tripathi 37. Indonesian lexicography in the Internet era Deny Arnos Kwary 38. Portuguese lexicography in the Internet era Teresa Lino 39. Russian lexicography in the Internet era Olga M. Karpova 40. Spanish lexicography in the Internet era Ignacio Bosque and Auxiliadora Barrios RodríguezPart 6: Looking into the Future: Lexicography in the Internet Era 41. Electronic dictionaries Anna Dziemianko 42. Using the web for lexicographic purposes Vincent Ooi 43. Information retrieval for lexicographic purposes Orin Hargraves 44. Dictionary usage research in the Internet era Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Alexander Koplenig and Sascha Wolfer 45. User participation in the Internet Era Christian M. Meyer and Andrea Abel 46. Dictionary portals Bob Boelhouwer, Hindrik Sijens and Anne Dykstra 47. Towards an International Directory of Lexicography Reinhard R.K. Hartmann Index

Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera is Full Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain; Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; and Tutor at UNED, Spain.