Reflective writing about lexicography

"lexicography" derives from the Greek λεξικογράφος lexikographos, "lexicographer",from λεξικόν lexicon, neut. of λεξικός lexikos, "of or for words", from λέξις lexis, "speech", "word", (in turn from λέγω lego, "to say", "to speak" and γράφω grapho, "to scratch, to inscribe, to write"

One important goal of lexicography is to keep the lexicographic information costs incurred by dictionary users as low as possible. Nielsen (2008) suggests relevant aspects for lexicographers to consider when making dictionaries as they all affect the users' impression and actual use of specific dictionaries. One important consideration is the status of 'bilingual lexicography', or the compilation and use of the bilingual dictionary in all its aspects (see e.g. Nielsen 1894). In spite of a relatively long history of this type of dictionary, it is often said[according to whom?] to be less developed in a number of respects than its unilingual counterpart, especially in cases where one of the languages involved is not a major language. Not all genres of reference works are available in interlingual versions, e.g. LSP, learners' and encyclopedic types, although sometimes these challenges produce new subtypes, e.g. 'semi-bilingual' or 'bilingualised' dictionaries such as Hornby's (Oxford) Advanced Learner's Dictionary English-Chinese, which have been developed by translating existing monolingual dictionaries (see Marello 1998).

In this course we also have learned the types of dictionaries.Types of Dictionaries may include:

-Unilingual

-Bilingual or multilingual

-General

-Explanatory dictionaries irrespective of their bulk

-English-Russian, Russian-English, etc. and multilingual dictionaries

-Etymological, frequency, phonetical, rhyming and thesaurus type dictionaries

-Concentrated on one of the distinctive features of the word

-Special

And we may add some information about structure of the dictionary what we learned from this course. A dictionary is composed of four parts: Megastructure, Macrostructure, Mesostructure and Microstructure. The megastructure of a dictionary is the entire structure of the dictionary, including. – the front matter, e.g. contents, instruction; – abbreviations and explanations of grammar, e.g. adj.

The macrostructure of a dictionary is the organisation of the lexical entries in the body of a dictionary into lists, tree structures, and networks.

Two types of macrostructure:

– semasiological: more like tree structures

– onomasiological: more like lists (Both of them are networks.)

The microstructure of a dictionary is the consistent organisation of lexical information within lexical entries in the dictionary. This structure shows the properties of linguistic units such as words: For example: what's the microstructure of "antiestablishmentarialism"?

According to the rules of morphology, the word could be divided into 5 parts: "anti-", "establish", "-ment", "arial", "-ism". But in terms of the rules of content, only three parts can be gained: "anti-", "establishment", and "arialism".

The mesostructure of a dictionary is the set of relations between lexical entries and other entities such as other parts of a dictionary or a text corpus. In another word, it's mainly about links, e.g. hypernym, hyponym, antonym, synonym, inflection, conjugation,

The internet resources:

1.Study.com

2.https://www.google.com