Screen LibraryCultures, ideologies, and the dictionary : studies in honor of Ladislav Zgusta /
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 th...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. ©1995 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: |
Multiple English French German |
| Series: |
Lexicographica. Series maior ;
volume 64 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110957075 |
| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (lxvi, 458 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110957075 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | P327 |
| CLC: | H06 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years / Bibliography of Publications / Introduction / Otom Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences / Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet / Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources / Allusions Litt raires et Citations Historiques dans le Tr sor de la Langue Fran aise / Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary / The Spindle or the Distaff / The Principal Categories of Learn d Words / Lexical Cosmetics / The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography / The Current State of Chinese Lexicography / The New Historiography, the History of French and Le Bon Usage in Nicot s Dictionary (1606) -- On Chi -nam Ng c- m Gia i-ngh a: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary / Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave s Lesclarcissement / Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries / Marrism and Soviet Lexicography / Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century / Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe / Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer / British and American Biases in English Dictionaries / One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean / Worldview and Verbal Sense |