The Evolution of the Concept of “Farhang” in Persian Dictionaries and Lexicographers’ Criticisms of each other’s Method from the Compilation of Fors to Bahar-e Ajam [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2023 This study introduced Persian dictionaries and prominent lexicographers and explored the evolution of the concept of “farhang” and lexicographers’ criticism of each other in Persian-Persian dictionaries.
Saeed khosropour, Abdollah Radmard
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Four centuries of German “happiness” in lexicographers’ interpretations [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article deals with the concept of “happiness”, represented and interpreted through lexicography. The objective of the study is to try to compare the perspectives of researchers on the origin of the word Glück, trace the development of its semantics ...
Ivanov Andrey Vladimirovich +1 more
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Xitsonga Kinship Terminologies in Selected Bilingual Dictionaries
African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary StudiesKinship terminologies, which vary across cultures and languages, present challenges for lexicographers in creating bilingual dictionaries. Effective bilingual dictionaries must accurately and comprehensively reflect kinship terms and their equivalents ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s “Russian Dictionary of Language Expansion” as a Lexicographical Experiment
Филологический класс, 2021 The purpose of the article is to analyze the concept of the “Russian Dctionary of Language Expansion” by A. I. Solzhenitsyn in line with the national lexicographic tradition.
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Serbian lexicography today [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017 There are three urgent tasks before the Serbian lexicographers: the vertical and horizontal defining of the contemporary Serbian language, the formation of the Serbian language corpus and the compilation of the standard descriptive dictionary ...
Gortan-Premk Darinka S.
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Lexikos, 2021 This article, the third in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, firstly focuses on a number of aspects of data boxes in bilingual dictionaries with the emphasis on different approaches in bilingual dictionaries with an African language as one ...
Rufus H. Gouws, D.J. Prinsloo
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Dahl – a Man and a Dictionary (for the 220th Anniversary of the Birth)
Филологический класс, 2021 The author reflects on the fate of the most popular dictionary in Russia, written by the lexicographer, ethnographer and folklorist V. I. Dahl, analyzing the principles of building this “encyclopedia of Russian folk life of the first half of the 19th ...
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The Yin and Yang of Dictionary Making: Slovenian Lexicographers Reflect
Lexikos, 2021 This contribution presents the second and final report on a study that set out to gain a greater understanding of what general modern Slovenian lexicography is.
Alenka Vrbinc +2 more
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Abbreviations and Acronyms: The Case of Tlhalosi ya Medi ya Setswana
Lexikos, 2015 This paper looks at how abbreviations and acronyms are treated in African language dictionaries in general compared to selected mainstream English dictionaries. Specifically, the study looks at their treatment in T.J. Otlogetswe's (2012) Tlhalosi ya Medi
Joyce T. Mathangwane
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Committing blasphemy: A polemic against the Holy Book of lexicographers
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Lexicography, 2021 Despite the profane wordings in the title above, this paper will be a civilized and academic inquest into the sacrosanct “compendium” the world has come to venerate. Touted by the lexicographer as the panacea to every linguistic worry, the dictionary has
Shahryar Naeem
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