Teaching and Researching Lexicography [Paperback]

Who compiles dictionaries and other reference works? Which are used by whom? How do they achieve their purpose?

Lexicography is a very important subject and the product of lexicography, the Dictionary, is a valuable resource in language learning.

Teaching and Researching Lexicographyexplains the relations between lexicographic practice (dictionary-making) and theory (dictionary research), with special reference to the perspectives of:

• dictionary history
• dictionary criticism
• dictionary typology
• dictionary structure
• dictionary use

The final section of the book contains a variety of useful resources, including relevant related websites, a glossary of terms and a bibliography of cited dictionaries. This section can also be found on the Teaching and Researching Lexicography companion web-site.

Written in a highly accessible style, Teaching and Researching Lexicography provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date and international coverage of this field in English, and will be of great interest to lexicographers, language teachers and applied linguists.

Preface 
 
SECTION I: LEXICOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE AND THEORY 
 
1. The Lexicographic Scene
2. Lexicography as Practice
3. Lexicography as Theory
 
SECTION II: PERSPECTIVES ON DICTIONARY RESEARCH
 
4. Historical and Critical Perspectives
5. Structural and Typological Perspectives
6. The User Perspective
 
SECTION III: ISSUES, METHODS AND CASE STUDIES 

7. Issues in Dictionary Research
8. Methods in Dictionary Research
9. Case Studies