Contents - De Gruyter

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years
Braj B. Kach.ru
Bibliography of Publications by Ladislav Zgusta
Introduction
Braj B. Kachru
I. C0NTEXTUALI21NG
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CULTURE
Otomi Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences
Doris Bartholomew
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Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires.
Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet
Pierre Corbin
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Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts:
The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources
Joshua A. Fishman
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Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques Dans le Trésor de la Langue Française
Franz Josef Hausmann
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Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary
Luis Fernando Lara
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The Spindle or the Distaff
Winfred P. Lehmann
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The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words
Yakov Malkiel
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Lexical Cosmetics
Eugene A. Nida
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II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography
Frances Karttunen
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The Current State of Chinese Lexicography
Thomas B. I. Creamer
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The 'New Historiography,' the History of French
and 'Le Bon Usage' in Nicot's Dictionary (1606)
Douglas A. Kibbee
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On Chi-nam Ngoc-am Giai-nghia: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese dictionary
Bình-Hoà Nguyen
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Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement
Gabriele Stein
III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE
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USE
Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries
Manuel Alvar Ezquerra
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Marrism and Soviet Lexicography
Donna M. T. Cr. Farina
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Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme
in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century
CarlaMarello
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Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe
Arma Wierzbicka
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Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer
R. David Zorc
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IV. PLURICENTRICITY
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ETHNOCENTRICISM
British and American Biases in English Dictionaries
John Algeo
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One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean
Chin W. Kim
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Worldview and Verbal Senses
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
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De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec . . .
ClaudePoirier
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Taking it for Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries
Janet Whitcut
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V. DICTIONARIES
ACROSS LANGUAGES AND
CULTURES
Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries
Yamuna Kachru
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The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts
Roger J. Steiner
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VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs.
PRESCRIPTIVISM
The Learner's Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective
Anthony P. Cowie
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Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change
Rufus H. Gouws
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Dictionaries for the People or for People?
Francis E. Knowles
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VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER
Learners' Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind
Gerard M. Dalgish
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VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS
The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father
Fredric F. M. Dolezal
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Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages
Mary Ritchie Key
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How Many Meanings to a Word?
Johannes P. Louw
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IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS' BIASES
When Religion Intrudes into Etymology
(On The Word: The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Source of English)
David L. Gold
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Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology:
Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks
Tom McArthur
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X. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology
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Zdenelc Polàcëk
Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries
Gunnar O. Richter
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XI. AFTERWORD
Afterword: Directions and Challenges
BrajB. Kachru
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Notes on Contributors
Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen
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