Everything about Lexicography
Art and science of compiling dictionaries
Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines:Practical lexicography is the compiling, writing, and editing of dictionaries. Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly study of semantic, orthographic, syntagmatic, and paradigmatic features of lexemes of the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situations, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as "metalexicography" as it is concerned with the finished dictionary itself. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: LexicographyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Dictionaries and lexicography in the AI eraInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: A dictionary of the English languageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Solving a full fuzzy linear programming using lexicography method and fuzzy approximate solutionCited 173 times
- Go sideways: LexicologyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Sandro NielsenA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
Noun The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
Noun A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Solving a full fuzzy linear programming using lexicography method and fuzzy approximate solution
Old Wine, New Ethnographic Lexicography
Acute kidney injury: changing lexicography, definitions, and epidemiology
Lexicography of kinetic modeling of complex reaction networks
Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography: Enriching our emotional landscape through 216 ‘untranslatable’ words pertaining to well-being
Generative AI and Lexicography: The Current State of the Art Using ChatGPT
The Corpus Revolution in Lexicography
Lexicography minimum solution of fuzzy relation inequalities: applied to optimal control in P2P file sharing system
🆕 Influential since 2022
Dictionaries and lexicography in the AI era
Reconfiguration of distribution network for improving power quality indexes with flexible lexicography method
The Intellectualization of African Languages through Terminology and Lexicography: Methodological Reflections with Special Reference to Lexicographic Products of the University of KwaZulu-Natal
The ROI of AI in lexicography
Critical Lexicography at Work: Reflections and Proposals for Eliminating Gender Bias in General Dictionaries of Spanish
📚 Books worth reading
A dictionary of the English languageSamuel Johnson · 1747
The Professor and the MadmanSimon Winchester · 1998
Griechische GrammatikEduard Schwyzer, Walter Otto · 1939- 📕English WordsFrancis Katamba · 1994
Dictionaries in Early Modern EuropeJohn Considine · 2008
LexicographyHoward Jackson · 2013- 📕Dicionário dos dicionários portuguesesDieter Messner · 1994
Manual of lexicographyLadislav Zgusta · 1971
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🔗 Related topics
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