Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary : : Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta / / ed. by Braj B. Kachru, Henry Kahane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Algeo, John,; Bartholomew, Doris,; Corbin, Pierre,; Cowie, Anthony P.,; Creamer, Thomas Β. I.,; Dalgish, Gerard M.,; Dolezal, Fredric F.M.,; Ezquerra, Manuel Alvar,; Farina, Donna M. T. Cr.,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Gold, David L.,; Gouws, Rufus H.,; Hausmann, Franz Josef,; Kachru, Braj B.,; Kachru, Braj Β.,; Kachru, Yamuna,; Karttunen, Frances,; Key, Mary Ritchie,; Kim, Chin W.,; Knowles, Francis E.,; Lara, Luis Fernando,; Lehmann, Winfred P.,; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara,; Louw, Johannes P.,; Malkiel, Yakov,; Marello, Carla,; McArthur, Tom,; Nida, Eugene A.,; Poirier, Claude,; Poláček, Zdeněk,; Richter, Gunnar O.,; Stein, Gabriele,; Steiner, Roger J.,; Whitcut, Janet,; Wierzbicka, Anna,; Zorc, R. David,; Đình-Hoà, Nguyễn,
• HerausgeberIn: Kachru, Braj B.,; Kahane, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2013]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years --; Bibliography of Publications --; Introduction --; PART I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE --; Otomí 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 Littéraires et Citations Historiques dans le Trésor de la Langue Française --; Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary --; The Spindle or the Distaff --; The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words --; Lexical Cosmetics --; PART II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT --; 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 Chi̓-nam Ngọc-âm Gia̓̓i-nghĩa: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese Dictionary --; Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave’s Lesclarcissement --; PART III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE --; 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 --; PART IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM --; British and American Biases in English Dictionaries --; One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean --; Worldview and Verbal Senses --; De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec --; Taking It For Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries --; PART V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES --; Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries --; The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts --; PART VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM --; The Learner’s Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective --; Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change --; Dictionaries for the People or for People? --; PART VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER --; Learners’ Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind --; PART VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS --; The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father --; Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages --; How Many Meanings to a Word? --; PART IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS’ BIASES --; When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals The Hebrew Source of English) --; Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks --; PART Χ. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES --; Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology --; Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries --; PART XI. AFTERWORD --; Afterword: Directions and Challenges --; Notes on Contributors --; Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110957075; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 0175-9264
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110957075
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Braj B. Kachru, Henry Kahane.

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.