Discusses the etymologies of words of Far Eastern origin included in "Webster's Third Dictionary." (TO)

Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement'', October 13, 1972; present article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Presidential address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Modern Language Association of Great Britain held January 2, 1973, the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. (DS)

Discusses the role of the lexicographer in assisting the translator and the technical writer and in vocabulary control. (AM)

Examines the problems of clarity, precision, and consistency found in dictionaries' treatment of the adjective "devergonde" and the noun "devergondage," particulary in their figurative forms. (AM)

Describes a project called JURIVOC which sought to deal with the problem of a duality of language and a duality in legal systems in Canada. The development of a bilingual lexicon is discussed, and an example is given of the classic language/legal system duality in Canadian law. (AM)

Discusses the works and life of the Russian linguist Ushakov; His great contributions in the fields of dialectology and pronunciation are emphasized. (HK)

Discusses Ramon Menendez Pidal's contribution to Spanish and general lexicography in his prologue to Samuel Gili Gaya's "Diccionario General." (AM)

Terminology has been existing as an autonomous activity for only fifteen In private industry more than in the public sector, it has been diff years. icult to have the importance of a terminology acknowledged. The relation of terminology to translation is discussed, as well as the task of the terminologist. (Text is in French.) (AM)

PROBLEMS DEALING WITH LEVELS OF SPEECH AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS IN CONNECTION WITH MODERN GREEK LEXICOGRAPHICAL STUDY WERE DISCUSSED. CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPETENT BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, THE INVESTIGATORS SUGGESTED THAT THE VARIOUS STRUCTURES (NAMELY, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND SYNTAX) BE TIED TOGETHER TO INVOLVE (1) LISTING IN…

This classification scheme attempts to demonstrate a method of controlling and organizing an indexing language for the physical forms of non-book media. The classification is based on the technique of facet analysis. It comprises a classification of the concepts of the subject with an alphabetical listing of the verbal descriptions of the subject.…

Proposals for the use of the computer in the humanities often ask more of the machine than it can reasonably yield, and the enthusiastic generation of data for dictionary projects may well overburden the editors who must eventually cope with it. Procedures in lexicography are not well enough defined for a substantial burden to be placed on the…