Cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary : studies in honor of Ladislav Zgusta / / edited by Braj B. Kachru and Henry Kahane

• Pubblicazione: Tübingen : , : Niemeyer, , 1995
• Edizione: Reprint 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Disciplina: 527
• Soggetto topico: Lexicography; Language and culture
• Altri autori: ZgustaLadislav KachruBraj B KahaneHenry <1902-1992.>
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: "Bibliography of publications by Ladislav Zgusta": pages [xxi]-lxi.; Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years / Kachru, Braj B. -- Bibliography of Publications / Zgusta, Ladislav -- Introduction / Kachru, Braj Β. -- PART I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE -- Otomí Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences / Bartholomew, Doris -- Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet / Corbin, Pierre -- Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources / Fishman, Joshua A. -- Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques dans le Trésor de la Langue Française / Hausmann, Franz Josef -- Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary / Lara, Luis Fernando -- The Spindle or the Distaff / Lehmann, Winfred P. -- The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words / Malkiel, Yakov -- Lexical Cosmetics / Nida, Eugene A. -- PART II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- The Roots of Sixteenth-Century 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
• Sommario/riassunto: A pioneering volume addressing issues related to cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study with focus on selected Western and non-Western languages. A number of in-depth case studies illustrates the dominant role ideology and other types of bias play in the making of a dictionary. The volume includes invited papers of 40 internationally recognized scholars.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary
• ISBN: 3-11-095707-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823430803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lexicographica. . -Series maior ; ; 64.