Week: 19/04 – 22/04
Lecture Room: Building 1 – Room 1.38
Schedule: 09:30 – 12:30 | 14:00 – 17:00
Teachers:
Contents:
In this module the focus is on the foundations of metalexicography and dictionary research. The aim is to present a variety of aspects from the domain of metalexicography and to show the interactive relation between theory and practice. Topics to be treated in this module include:
- Lexicography and society
- Theory and practice in lexicography: terminological explanations
- Lexicography as art
- Function theory
- The frame structure
- Outer texts and inner texts: front and back matter texts
- Access structures
- Outer and inner access structures
- Online dictionaries: search strings, search routes, navigation, structures
- Lexicography and dictionary research: addressees, dictionary functions, dictionary subject matter and dictionary form
- Methods in lexicography: Text theory and theory regarding procedures as basis of dictionary research
- Macrostructures: alphabetical and thematic macrostructures
- Nesting and niching
- Microstructure: theory
- Lexicographic items in print and online dictionaries
Please see the module description for further information.