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Designing and Compiling Dictionaries: A Comprehensive Guide

This book introduces lexicography with focus on microstructure elements like entries, senses, and pronunciation. It covers planning, data sources, and evaluation of dictionaries.

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Designing and Compiling Dictionaries: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Macrostructure  Front matter  Body  Appendices Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, p. 25.

  2. MicrostructureEntries and their Content  Spelling  Pronunciation  Inflections  Word Class (Grammatical Category)  Senses  Definitions  Examples  Usage  Run-ons  Etymology Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 26-27.

  3. Planning a Dictionary (partial) Publisher / Editors:  Who will the dictionary be for? Users?  What will they use the dictionary for? Staff lexicographers’ tasks:  selecting headwords (word list)  designing entry content  identifying sources of data  determining who will write the entries

  4. Compiling a Dictionary: Data Sources 1. Previous dictionaries 2. Citation files 3. Computer corpus BNC (100 million words) Bank of English (Cobuild) (bigger) concordance programs (free and cheap) KWIC lists Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 28-29.

  5. Two Approaches to Evaluating a Dictionary 1. See what the dictionary says about itself and evaluate in terms of that—BLURB 2. Use a set of recognized criteria to evaluate. Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, p. 30.

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