Lexicography in the Borderland Between Knowledge and Non-Knowledge: General Lexicographical Theory with Particular Focus on Learner's Lexicography

By Sven Tarp

The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners' dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484391340
• ISBN13: 9783484391345
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary