Zgusta Ladislav. Manual of Lexicography

Academia, 1971. — 360 pages.The present book intends to discuss lexicography in its broad aspects, but with a concentration on monolingual and bilingual dictionaries; the hope is that the book will be useful to those who work on lexicographic projects or plan such undertakings. On the other hand, we also hope that a coherent statement and discussion of lexicographic problems will help to clarify them, and to demonstrate the importance of their being conceived in the framework of the linguistic theory more effectively. In spite of this general character of the book, we have in mind above all those lexicographers who work with languages which do not enjoy a long philological or even lexicographic tradition, as is frequently the case of the languages of Africa and Asia. The Amerindian languages do not enjoy a long tradition either, but their extralinguistic situation is different. Therefore, considerable space is given, in the present book, to the discussion of problems and examples taken from some of these languages. The respective examples and their linguistic interpretation are supplied by the co-authors. The respective passages for which the co-authors are basically responsible are usually preceded or only exceptionally followed by their respective names. For the rest of the book including its whole conception, the main author who has signed this foreword is responsible; the same applies to the occasional pronouns “I”, or “we” unavoidably interspersed throughout the text. Exceptions to this general rule are duly marked in the footnotes.Lexical Meaning
Lexical Meaning
Semantics
The System and the Applications
The Components of Lexical Meaning
The Actual Signification in the Context
Polysemy
Homonymy
Synonymy
Designative and Non-Designative Words
Formal Variation of Words
The Paradigm
Derivation
Composition
Combinations of Words
Meaningful Combinations of Words
Rections
Free Combinations
Set Combinations
Appendix
Variation in Language
Dialects
The Standard National Language
Styles and Restricted Languages etc.; Diglossia
The Development of a Standard National Language
Linguistic Change
Lexicographic Practice; the Norm
Appendix: Statements on Variation in Particular Languages
The Types of Dictionaries
Encyclopedic Dictionaries
Linguistic Dictionaries
The Monolingual Dictionary
Basic Decisions
Articulation of Work
Collection of Material
Selection of Entries
The Construction of Entries
Arrangement of Entries
Normative Aspects
The Bilingual Dictionary
The Purpose of the Bilingual Dictionary
The Anisomoiphism of Languages
Multilingual Dictionaries
Types of Bilingual Dictionaries
Collection of Material
Selection of Entries
The Equivalent
Eorm of Entries
Glosses and Labels
Examples
Grammatical Information
Abstractive Power
Other Information
Sequence of Entries
Planning and Organization of Lexicographic Work
The Lexicographer’s Personal Decision
The Sequence of the Necessary Dictionaries
Time Estimates in Planning
Organizational and Operative Details
The Use of Automatic Data-processing Machines
Consolation of Lexicography