Lexicography

George Orwell coined the term 'Newspeak' for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance.

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology, from Wuster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s.

Relabeling is a process that assigns a lexical entry of language-x a new label derived from a phonetic string drawn from language-y.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Function Theory of Lexicography, which originated at the Aarhus School of Business (Aarhus University).

Groups together Japanese near-synonyms and provides clear information on their meaning and use, richly illustrated with authentic examples.

This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art.

Based on an empirical study of categorisation and lexicalisation processes in a corpus of scientific publications on the life sciences, Rita Temmerman questions the validity of traditional terminology theory.

Translation and Lexicography includes a selection of papers presented at the 1987 European Lexicographers' Conference (EURALEX).

This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies.

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

This book focuses on information literacy for the younger generation of learners and library readers.

The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond.

From 1990-1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled "e;translation of LSP texts"e;, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography.

This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of 'Hong Kong English'.

The book overviews a wide range of vocabulary research methodologies, and offers practical advice on how to carry out valid and reliable research on first and second language vocabulary.

The book sets out to describe new developments in terminology from a cognitive perspective, with a special focus on the role of metaphor in terminology.

In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told.

This book deals with the oft-neglected tensions between perspicuity and fuzziness in specialised communication.