[PDF] Specialised Lexicography In African Languages eBook

Author : Dion Nkomo
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Ndebele language (Zimbabwe)
ISBN : 9783844310160

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This monograph discusses pertinent issues which should considered in the production of specialiseddictionaries in African languages. Special reference is made to a prospective Ndebele Linguistic and Literary Terms Dictionary. The issues discussed include lexicographic planning, data collection, data processing, lemma selection, the provision of data categories and the utilisation of dictionary structures.The monograph demonstrates and emphasises the need for theoretical guidance in all lexicographic tasks.

Author : R. R. K. Hartmann
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :

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Lexicography in Africa is a new book in the invaluable series Exeter Linguistic Studies and one of three volumes dedicated to lexicography to mark the fifth anniversary of the Dictionary Research Centre in the University of Exeter. It is the first attempt to fill a niche in our knowledge of lexicography on this continent. It does not pretend to be a complete survey of lexicography in Africa but a tentative one which conveys the most important trends in the field and a wealth of exemplary material. It investigates the lexicographic situation in different parts of Africa (Central Africa paper 3; Northern Africa paper 4 and Southern Africa paper 6) and the linguistic and historical background (paper 1 and 2). It also concerns itself with the user of the dictionary and his needs, types of dictionaries available and the hopes pinned on computer technology.

Author : R. H. Gouws
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1919980903

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Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography is directed at experts in the field of practical and theoretical lexicography in South Africa, applying the general theory of lexicography to the South African lexicographic environment. The authors of this book are leaders in the field of South African lexicography and active participants in the international lexicographic arena, publishing regularly in national and international journals and giving papers at international conferences and workshops.

Author : Vida Jesenšek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110333430

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Despite the great number and diversity of specialised dictionaries and terminologies, several major issues of specialised lexicography still remain unresolved. The articles in this volume intend to discuss and resolve such open questions and, at the same time, spawn further research.

Author : Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1920338799

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This book provides a broad overview of current work on South African languages, language resources and language technologies. While it provides a fairly comprehensive overview, it also ties together the most recent knowledge state here, and is therefore truly innovative ? The book is therefore informed by current international trends in the respective fields of science, and feeds back into them ? There is absolutely no doubt that the book has an academic peer audience and is directed at specialists in the field. - Prof. Axel Fleisch, University of Helsinki, Finland

Author : Henning Bergenholtz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027216126

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From 1990 1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled translation of LSP texts, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography."The Manual of Specialised Lexicography" is one of the results of the research undertaken by this project. The primary purpose of the Manual is to contribute towards an improved basis for practical specialised lexicography, which has so far had but a small share in the explosive development that has taken place in general-language lexicography since the early 1970s. One implication of this is that only to a limited extent has it been possible to build upon existing findings.The Manual thus has the twofold aim of offering guidance and direction to authors of specialised dictionaries as well as contributing towards the further development of lexicographical theories.

Author : Bassey Antia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027298645

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Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests that to be relevant and sustainable, current LP would have to define its mission as the deregulation of access to specialised knowledge, and correspondingly be founded on substantially different methods and theoretical bases: epistemology and ontology of specialised domains; research on language for special purposes (LSP) and collocations; corpus linguistics; knowledge extraction and knowledge representation; language engineering technologies. On the one hand, the book recommends itself to decision-makers and language planning project managers. On the other, it should be of interest to students of LSP and terminology, language planning, concept and object theories, knowledge modelling, artificial intelligence, text and corpus management, translation process analysis, text and African linguistics.

Author : Mawatle Jeremiah Mojalefa
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : African languages
ISBN : 1920109722

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After forty years in academia, P.S. Groenwald leaves a rich heritage, which is measured not only in terms of his impressive list of publications, but also in terms of those for whom he was the academic mentor. His versatility as academic is reflected in the variety of specialist fields in which his former students find themselves. Experts in literature and linguistics, lexicographers and translators all found their niches under his tutelage. In appreciation of the enormous contribution that he made towards their careers and academic schooling, former students and colleagues have decided to honour him with this festschrift.

Author : Pedro Antonio Fuertes Olivera
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027223351

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This stimulating new book, which combines dictionary research and linguistic knowledge, analyses the representation of meaning in business dictionaries from a pedagogical perspective. By examining in detail the macrostructure, mediostructure, access structure and microstructure of eight business dictionaries, this book presents interesting findings on how the dictionaries studied represent the 'noun-term', and on how they cope with the principles of new lexicography that aims at solving the needs of a specific type of user with specific types of problems related to a specific type of user situation. This exhaustive study, which makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of terminology, lexicography, and LSP teaching, defends a methodological confluence between LSP lexicography and terminology, and proposes some guiding principles towards the construction of pedagogically-oriented specialised dictionaries that must target students enrolled in LSP courses: Business English, Business Spanish, Business Translation, etc.