Speficity of the subjects: lexicography and contrastive Linguistics

A book and a dictionary.

ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY

• Plan:
• Historical development of Lexicography as a linguistic science
• Some debatable problems of lexicography
• Types of Dictionaries

Lexicography is the science of dictionary-compiling

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• Lexicography is the science of dictionary-compiling.
• The word "lexicography" derives from the Greek (lexikographos), from (lexicon), neut. (from (lexis) - "speech", "word", and (grapho) in the meaning – to scratch, to inscribe, to write.
• Lexicon is a term used in linguistics to indicate the archive of lexemes. Lexemes are abstract, minimal units in a language that link related forms of a word together. For example, the words fly, flight, flew, flying, and so on, are all morphologic variations of the lexeme fly.
• Fly is the lexeme because it is the base from which these word variations arise.

• Lexicography is the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries
• a branch of applied linguistics

Dictionary

• a book listing words of a language with their meanings and often with data regarding pronunciation, usage and/or origin

• Metalanguage a language used to make statements about other languages.
• it can refer to any terminology or language used to discuss language itself - a written grammar, for example, or a discussion about language use.

Historical development of English lexicography

• Old English period – glosses of religious books with translation from Latin
• the 15th century – regular bilingual English-Latin dictionaries

Historical development of English lexicography

• 1604 – “A Table Alphabeticall, containing and teaching the true writing and understanding of hard usuall English words borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, and French”
• first unilingual dictionary explaining 3000 words by English equivalents (Robert Cawdrey)