Provides definitions and sample citations for eight new English words and expressions. Journal availability: see FL 512 512. (AM)

Details a history of the term "pragmatics" and how it influences lexicography. Three pragmatic aspects of dictionaries are discussed, including: 1) the cultural setting; 2) equivalence in bilingual dictionaries; 3) the lexicographic definition. Lexicographic definitions illustrate how a dictionary is largely based on pragmatics. (Author/LMO)

Examines the treatment of sense discrimination in eight Spanish/English English/Spanish bilingual dictionaries and one specialized dictionary. Does this by analyzing 30 words that Torrents des Prats determined have at least nine different sense discriminations from English into Spanish. Larousse was found to be far superior to the others. (SED)

Discusses paronyms, with reference to translation, and related forms such as synonyms, polysemes, and false cognates. (AM)

More than 4,500 entries are included in this Ibibio dictionary which is intended for general use by field workers in the Ibibio (Nigeria) area or by professional linguists and anthropologists. Most noun entries include the following subentries: (1) noun phrases in which the head noun is qualified, resulting in a change or clarification of meaning,…

Part of a continuing article. (DD)

This paper describes the organization and characteristics of Tache Papahagi's "Dictionarul dialectului aroman, general si etimologic" (DAA), a bilingual Aromanian (Vlach)-Romanian dictionary published in 1974. It also describes an ongoing project to produce an English-Aromanian dictionary based on the DAA, which should serve as a…

More than 60,000 words and over 100,000 phrases and idioms are compiled in this dictionary of Serbo-Croatian based upon the vocabulary used by educated Yugoslavs and the daily press. The lexicon lists both Ekavian (Eastern) and Kekavian (Western) forms, giving illustrative phrases in the Eastern variant, and glosses in American English. Main…

An account of the dictionaries, great and small, of the English-speaking world is given in this book. Subjects covered include the origin of English dictionaries, early dictionaries, Noah Webster and his successors to the present, abridged dictionaries, "The Oxford English Dictionary" and later dictionaries patterned after it, the…

An analysis of two French-English business dictionaries, a 1989 revised edition and a 1990 edition, looks at a number of weaknesses in the resources' design and content. First, problems are found in transcriptions of pronunciation that do not reflect actual usage when it differs from convention and in lack of attention to pronunciation of words…

Surveys primarily the more important English dictionaries written by American scholars or edited and published in the U.S. Canadian and Caribbean English dictionaries are dealt with secondarily. Available from University of Alabama Press, Periodicals Department, Drawer 2877, University, Alabama 35486. (KM)

This dictionary is a companion volume to the "Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (Chinese-English)" published in 1967 by Seton Hall University. The purpose of the dictionary is to help English-speaking students produce Chinese sentences in certain cultural situations by looking up the English expressions. Natural, spoken Chinese expressions within the…

The Kuku-Yalanji language is spoken by 500-600 Australian Aboriginal people on the coast of southeastern Cape York and inland to Chillagoe. The dictionary is of the northern dialects of Kuku-Nyungkul, the Rossville/Shipton's Flats dialect, Kuku-Yalanji, the China Camp/Daintree dialect, and Kuku-Jalunji, the Bloomfield dialect. It has three…

Papers on lexicographic research in Quebec (Canada) include: "Indications semantiques dans les dictionnaires bilingues" ("Semantic Indications in Bilingual Dictionaries) (Johanne Blais, Roda P. Roberts); "Definitions predictionnairiques de 'maison, batiment, et pavillon'" ("Pre-dictionary definitions of 'house,…