Lexicography Lecture 12
Classification of dictionaries Lexicography is a branch of applied linguistics dealing with theory and practice of compiling dictionaries. Dictionary is a book listing words of a language with their meanings and often with data regarding pronunciation, usage and/or origin. encyclopaedic describe objects, phenomena, people, etc. and give information about them The Encyclopaedia Britannica The Encyclopaedia Americana Chamber's Encyclopaedia Collier's Encyclopaedia Linguistic dictionaries describe words, their origin and usage
Linguistic dictionaries According to the nature of the word-list Restricted phraseological and terminological dictionaries of new words dialectal dictionaries Unrestricted general both in word-list and in the information they contain according to the information given about each item General Presenting a wide range of data about the vocabulary items in ordinary use explanatory dictionaries and parallel or translation dictionaries specialized dictionaries restricting themselves to one particular aspect dictionaries of synonyms dictionaries of slang etymological dictionaries pronouncing dictionaries
According to the language in which information is given monolingual bilingual polyglot According to the intended user learner's dictionaries for the general public different types of dictionaries present different aspects of the vocabulary
Practical tasks # 17 1. State the type of the dictionary following the classification below: ü encyclopedic vs. linguistic dictionaries; ü explanatory dictionaries vs. parallel or translation dictionaries; ü monolingual, bilingual and polyglot dictionaries; ü restricted vs. unrestricted ü general vs. specialized dictionaries a) A. V. Kunin's English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary b) Webster's Unabridged Dictionary c) Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (идеографический словарь синонимов)