Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography

Howard Jackson is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the School of English at Birmingham City University, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK)Part I: Research Methods and Problems2. A History of Research in Lexicography, Paul Bogaards (Leiden University, Netherlands)3. Researching Lexicographical Practice, Lars Trap-Jensen (Society for Danish Language and Literature, Denmark)4. Methods in Dictionary Criticism, Kaoru Akasu (Toyo University, Japan)5. Methods in (Meta)Lexicography, Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK) 6. Researching Users and Uses of Dictionaries, Hilary Nesi (Coventry University, UK)Part II: Current Research and Issues7. Using Corpora as Data Sources for Dictionaries, Adam Kilgarriff (University of Leeds, UK)8. Researching the Use of Electronic Dictionaries, Veronica Pastor and Amparo Alcina (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)9. Researching Historical Lexicography and Etymology, John Considine (University of Alberta, Canada)10. Researching Pedagogical Lexicography, Amy Chi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)11. Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries, Shigeru Yamada (Waseda University, Japan)12. Issues in Compiling Bilingual Dictionaries, Arleta Adamska-Salaciak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)13. Issues in Compiling Minority and Endangered Language Dictionaries, Verna Stutzman (SIL International, USA)14. Issues in Compiling Dictionaries for African Languages, Daniel J. Prinsloo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)15. Issues in Compiling Dictionaries for Asian Languages, Vincent B Y Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Ai Inoue (National Defense Academy, Japan), Kilim Nam (Kyungpook University, South Korea) and Cuilian Zhao (Sichuan International Studies University, China)16. Issues in Onomasiological Lexicography, Gerardo Eugenio Sierra Martínez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)17. Issues in Collaborative Lexicography, Kevin Warfel, Franck Sajous and Amélie Josselin-Leray (Université de Toulouse 2, France)18. Issues in Sign Language Lexicography, Inge Zwitserlood (Radboud University, Netherlands), Jette Hedegaard Kristoffersen and Thomas Troelsgard (University College Capital, Denmark)19. Identifying, Ordering and Defining Senses, Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)20. A Theory of Lexicography - Is There One?, Tadeusz Piotrowski (Wroclaw University, Poland)Part III: New Directions in Lexicography21. E-Lexicography, Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera (University of Valladolid, Spain)22. The Design of Internet Dictionaries, Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus (Institute for the German Language, Germany)23. The Future of Historical Dictionaries, Charlotte Brewer (University of Oxford, UK)24. The Future of Dictionaries, Dictionaries of the Future, Sandro Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)Key Resources for Lexicography, Reinhard Hartmann (Birmingham University, UK)Glossary, Barbara Ann Kipfer (Zeta Global)Annotated BibliographyIndex of Proper Names Index

An enormously valuable and instructive starting point for research into lexicography and meta-lexicography; the contributions include helpful and detailed examples, and the relatively compact size of each paper makes the book particularly manageable for students and other researchers.