Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary : Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Ladislav Zgusta: The Illinois Years -- Bibliography of Publications by Ladislav Zgusta -- Introduction -- I. CONTEXTUALIZING CULTURE -- Otomí Culture from Dictionary Illustrative Sentences -- Un Film, Deux Linguistes et Quelques Dictionnaires. Un Regard Particulier sur Simple Mortel de Pierre Jolivet -- Dictionaries as Culturally Constructed and as Culture-Constructing Artifacts: The Reciprocity View as Seen from Yiddish Sources -- Allusions Littéraires et Citations Historiques Dans le Trésor de la Langue Française -- Towards a Theory of the Cultural Dictionary -- The Spindle or the Distaff -- The Principal Categories of Learnèd Words -- Lexical Cosmetics -- II. LEXICOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- The Roots of Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Lexicography -- The Current State of Chinese Lexicography -- The 'New Historiography,' the History of French and 'Le Bon Usage' in Nicot's Dictionary (1606) -- On Chi-nam Ngoc-am Giai-nghia: An Early Chinese-Vietnamese dictionary -- Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement -- III. IDEOLOGY, NORMS AND LANGUAGE USE -- Political Considerations on Spanish Dictionaries -- Marrism and Soviet Lexicography -- Florence like Athens and Italian like Greek: An Ideologically Biased Theme in the Forewords of Some Italian Thesauri of the 19th Century -- Dictionaries and Ideologies: Three Examples from Eastern Europe -- Philippine Regionalism versus Nationalism and the Lexicographer -- IV. PLURICENTRICITY AND ETHNOCENTRICISM -- British and American Biases in English Dictionaries -- One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries: The Case of Korean -- Worldview and Verbal Senses -- De la Soumission à la Prise de Parole: Le Cheminement de la Lexicographie au Québec -- Taking it for Granted: Some Cultural Preconceptions in English Dictionaries.

V. DICTIONARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Lexical Exponents of Cultural Contact: Speech Act Verbs in Hindi-English Dictionaries -- The Bilingual Dictionary in Cross-Cultural Contexts -- VI. LANGUAGE DYNAMICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVISM -- The Learner's Dictionary in a Changing Cultural Perspective -- Dictionaries and the Dynamics of Language Change -- Dictionaries for the People or for People? -- VII. LANGUAGE LEARNER AS THE CONSUMER -- Learners' Dictionaries: Keeping the Learner in Mind -- VIII. STRUCTURING SEMANTICS -- The Dictionary as Philosophy: Reconstructing the Meaning of Our Father -- Meaning as Derived from Word Formation in South American Indian Languages -- How Many Meanings to a Word? -- IX. ETHICAL ISSUES AND LEXICOLOGISTS' BIASES -- When Religion Intrudes into Etymology (On The Word: The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Source of English) -- Culture-Bound and Trapped by Technology: Centuries of Bias in the Making of Wordbooks -- X. TERMINOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES -- Amharic Lexicography and the Dynamics of Sociopolitical Terminology -- Grammatical Indications in Chinese Monolingual Dictionaries -- XI. AFTERWORD -- Afterword: Directions and Challenges -- Notes on Contributors -- Abstracts, Résumés, and Zusammenfassungen.

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