Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary : : Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta /

Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary : : Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta / / ed. by Braj B. Kachru, Henry Kahane.

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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 th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
MitwirkendeR:
Algeo, John,
Bartholomew, Doris,
Corbin, Pierre,
Cowie, Anthony P.,
Creamer, Thomas Β. I.,
Dalgish, Gerard M.,
Dolezal, Fredric F.M.,
Ezquerra, Manuel Alvar,
Farina, Donna M. T. Cr.,
Fishman, Joshua A.,
Gold, David L.,
Gouws, Rufus H.,
Hausmann, Franz Josef,
Kachru, Braj B.,
Kachru, Braj Β.,
Kachru, Yamuna,
Karttunen, Frances,
Key, Mary Ritchie,
Kim, Chin W.,
Knowles, Francis E.,
Lara, Luis Fernando,
Lehmann, Winfred P.,
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara,
Louw, Johannes P.,
Malkiel, Yakov,
Marello, Carla,
McArthur, Tom,
Nida, Eugene A.,
Poirier, Claude,
Poláček, Zdeněk,
Richter, Gunnar O.,
Stein, Gabriele,
Steiner, Roger J.,
Whitcut, Janet,
Wierzbicka, Anna,
Zorc, R. David,
Đình-Hoà, Nguyễn,
HerausgeberIn:
Kachru, Braj B.,
Kahane, Henry,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2013]
©1995
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 64
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years
  • Bibliography of Publications
  • Introduction
  • PART 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
  • PART 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 Chi̓-nam Ngọc-âm Gia̓̓i-nghĩa: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary
  • Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave’s Lesclarcissement
  • PART 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
  • PART 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
  • PART 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
  • PART 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?
  • PART VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER
  • Learners’ Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind
  • PART 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?
  • PART 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
  • PART Χ. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
  • Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology
  • Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries
  • PART XI. AFTERWORD
  • Afterword: Directions and Challenges
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen
  • Backmatter

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