A pioneering volume addressing issues related to cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study with focus on selected Western and non-Western languages. A number of in-depth case studies illustrates the dominant role ideology and other types of bias play in the making of a dictionary. The volume includes invited papers of 40 internationally recognized scholars.

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Languages & Linguistics

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

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