B T Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities world-wide. The book takes readers through building a corpus, analysing the data, and writing entries. Numerous exercises show the use of software to manipulate data and compile entries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9780199277704
• ISBN-10: 0199277702
• Artikelnr.: 24765373

Autorenporträt

Sue Atkins has worked as a lexicographer since 1966. She was General Editor of the first Collins-Robert English-French Dictionary series, co-designer of the Cobuild project and Lexicographic Adviser to Oxford University Press. She is currently Adviser to the FrameNet Project at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California. Michael Rundell has worked as a lexicographer since 1980. As Managing Editor at Longman Dictionaries for over ten years, he was responsible for running major projects. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan family of learners' dictionaries. His books include the Wisden Dictionary of Cricket. Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell are two of the most experienced and respected teachers in their field. With their colleague Adam Kilgarriff, they make up the Lexicography MasterClass (www.lexmasterclass.com), providing consultancy services and running training workshops in lexicography and lexical computing.