This manual, written in Spanish, contains a linguistic study to show that all sciences, whether economic or social, technical or humanistic in nature have a direct impact on our terminology. Starting with general linguistic considerations on technical terms in both English and Spanish, the study advances to semantics used in symbolic language. It…

Part of a continuing series. (VM)

Part of a continuing bibliographical series on lexicographical information. (VM)

Discusses the semantic differences between the near-synonyms "detenteur" and "titulaire" in French, and provides a list of terms correctly used with the two words and the additional near-synonym "porteur." (AM)

The conceptualization and methodology behind the "Macquarie Dictionary," a lexicographical project on World English in an Asian context are briefly outlined. The motivations for the dictionary are discussed, as are the book's corpus, the types of lexical items included from various registers of Asian English, and the market for such a…

Describes an adequate collocational dictionary for learners of Russian. Recommendations are made regarding what should and should not be included in a collocational dictionary, and a discussion looks at under which headwords collocations should be entered in the dictionary. (44 references) (GLR)

Discusses what appear to be deliberate attempts to avoid sexism in the new Collins Cobuild Dictionary, but shows how easily the choice of examples can portray women in a negative light. The question arises whether lexicographers can select more neutral illustrations of women without being untrue to lexographic art. (Author/VWL)

Reviews the development of English dictionaries in general and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in particular. The discussion covers the decision by the Philological Society to create the dictionary, the principles that guided its development, the involvement of James Augustus Henry Murray, the magnitude and progress of the project, and the…

Discusses the historical method in lexicography, the general characteristics of library terminology, and the current state of library lexicography. Presents a glossary which lists quotations supplementing the coverage of library-related vocabulary in the "Oxford English Dictionary" (OED) and the "Dictionary of Americanisms"…

A discussions of the problem of discriminating the different senses of a polysemous word in bilingual dictionaries, and some suggestions on how a dictionary should cope with it. (CK)

Reprint from "Listen , publication of Catholic Guild for All the Blind, Boston, December 1967.

THIS REPORT DISCUSSES LEXICOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF FOLK TERMS. THE CONCERNS OF SUCH CLASSIFICATION ARE DESCRIBED AS (1) IDENTIFYING RELEVANT SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES, (2) IDENTIFYING FUNDAMENTAL SEMANTIC UNITS IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS, (3) DELINEATING SIGNIFICANT SETS OF SEMANTIC UNITS IN PARTICULAR DOMAINS, AND (4) TRANSLATING AND MARKING THE…

Since the first edition of this volume was published in 1962, new terms have entered the lexicon of labor relations practitioners, established terms have taken on new meanings, and others seem to have vanished. The revision brings descriptions into conformity with the matters described. New terms enter from at least three sources. The first source…

The Model 3 communication skills lexicon consists of three lists of words developed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) for use in communication skills instruction in K-6. This report documents the procedures used for developing a technical lexicon for subject areas in kindergarten and the elementary grades. To develop a music lexicon,…

The first paper, "The Language of Term Relation Designations in Subject Access Vocabularies," contains a set of tables comparing certain features of ten thesauri and subject authority lists. The purpose of this essay is to present a kind of analysis that may have value in clarifying the language and structure of subject access vocabularies with a…