Mesoamerican Lexicography / Karttunen, Frances -- The Current State of Chinese Lexicography / Creamer, Thomas Β. I. -- The 'New Historiography,' the History of French and 'Le Bon Usage' in Nicot's Dictionary (1606) -- On Chi̓-nam Ngọc-âm Gia̓̓i-nghĩa: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary / Đình-Hoà, Nguyễn -- Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement / Stein, Gabriele -- PART III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE -- Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries / Ezquerra, Manuel Alvar -- Marrism and Soviet Lexicography / Farina, Donna M. T. Cr. -- Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century / Marello, Carla -- Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe / Wierzbicka, Anna -- Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer / Zorc, R. David -- PART IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM -- British and American Biases in English Dictionaries / Algeo, John -- One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean / Kim, Chin W. -- Worldview and Verbal Senses / Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara -- De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec / Poirier, Claude -- Taking It For Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries / Whitcut, Janet -- PART V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries / Kachru, Yamuna -- The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts / Steiner, Roger J. -- PART VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM -- The Learner's Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective / Cowie, Anthony P. -- Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change / Gouws, Rufus H. -- Dictionaries for the People or for People? / Knowles, Francis E. -- PART VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER -- Learners' Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind / Dalgish, Gerard M. -- PART VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS -- The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father / Dolezal, Fredric F.M. -- Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages / Key, Mary Ritchie -- How Many Meanings to a Word? / Louw, Johannes P. -- PART IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS' BIASES -- When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English) / Gold, David L. -- Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks / McArthur, Tom -- PART Χ. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES -- Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology / Poláček, Zdeněk -- Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries / Richter, Gunnar O. -- PART XI. AFTERWORD -- Afterword: Directions and Challenges / Kachru, Braj B. -- Notes on Contributors -- Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen -- Backmatter |