Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary

Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta

Braj B. Kachru, Henry Kahane, Braj B. Kachru, Henry Kahane

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783484309647
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110957075
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: German Language
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

In der Reihe Lexicographica. Series Maior erscheinen schwerpunktmäßig Monographien und Sammelbände zur Lexikographie und Metalexikographie. Darüber hinaus werden Arbeiten aus dem weiteren Bereich der Lexikologie aufgenommen, sofern sie Ansätze bieten, die einen Beitrag zum Ausbau der theoretischen, methodischen und empirischen Grundlagen von Lexikographie und Metalexikographie leisten.

In den seit 1984 erschienenen mehr als 160 Bänden spiegeln sich anschaulich die Schwerpunkte und Entwicklungstendenzen der einschlägigen Forschung. Das Spektrum der behandelten Themen reicht von Problemen der Mikro- und Makrostruktur über typologische und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Aspekte bis hin zur anwendungsorientierten lexikographischen Dokumentation.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years
• Bibliography of Publications by Ladislav Zgusta
• Introduction
• I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE
• Otomí Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences
• Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet
• Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources
• Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques Dans le Trésor de la Langue Française
• Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary
• The Spindle or the Distaff
• The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words
• Lexical Cosmetics
• II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
• The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography
• The Current State of Chinese Lexicography
• The ‘New Historiography,’ the History of French and ‘Le Bon Usage’ in Nicot’s Dictionary (1606)
• On Chi-nam Ngoc-am Giai-nghia: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese dictionary
• Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave’s Lesclarcissement
• III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE
• Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries
• Marrism and Soviet Lexicography
• Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century
• Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe
• Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer
• IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM
• British and American Biases in English Dictionaries
• One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean
• Worldview and Verbal Senses
• De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec
• Taking it for Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries
• V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
• Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries
• The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts
• VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM
• The Learner’s Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective
• Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change
• Dictionaries for the People or for People?
• VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER
• Learners’ Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind
• VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS
• The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father
• Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages
• How Many Meanings to a Word?
• IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS’ BIASES
• When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Source of English)
• Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks
• X. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
• Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology
• Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries
• XI. AFTERWORD
• Afterword: Directions and Challenges
• Notes on Contributors
• Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen