The Course Description of Lexicography:
The course is given for 2 hours per week for a semester and both types of lexicography is devoted to the course. Students are encountered to theoretical as well as practical Lexicography.
Lexicography is the branch of applied linguistics concerned with the design and construction of lexica for practical use. Lexica can range from the paper lexica or encyclopedia designed for human use and shelf storage to the electronic lexica used in a variety of human language technology systems, from palmtop word databases through word processors to software for read back (by speech synthesis in Text-to-Speech, TTS, systems) and dictation (by automatic speech recognition, ASR, systems). At a more generic level, a lexicon may be a generic lexicographic knowledge base from which lexica of all these different kinds can be derived automatically.
Lexicology, on the other hand, is the branch of descriptive linguistics concerned with the linguistic theory and methodology for describing lexical information, often focusing specifically on issues of meaning. Traditionally, lexicology has been mainly concerned with `lexis', i.e. lexical collocations and idioms, and lexical semantics, the structure of word fields and meaning components and relations. Until recently, lexical semantics was conducted separately from study of the syntactic, morphological and phonological properties of words, but linguistic theory in the 1990s has gradually been integrating these dimensions of lexical information.
Steps in practical lexicography
Practical lexicon development can be located along a scale from large-scale software engineering projects at the one end, to on-demand creation of prototypes for empirical work on linguistic questions on the other. Many software tools have been developed over the years for working with text databases, and a number of programme generations can be observed, from mainframe languages for string processing through PC based tools to tools with graphical user interfaces (GUIs), both in local stand alone and client-server applications, and globally on the World-Wide-Web. The lexicographic tools include string processing languages such as SNOBOL, TUSTEP, as well as UNIX shell tools for processing text streams, proprietary or local DOS tools, and more recently tools based on GUIs in windows environments on PCs, Macs, and UNIX workstations, or as platform independent applications such as hyperlexica for the World Wide Web
References
Boguraev & Briscoe 1989
Boguraev, Bran & Ted Briscoe, eds. (1989). Computational Lexicography for Natural Language Processing. London: Longman.
Cruse 1986
Cruse, D. A. (1986). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Fillmore 1971
Fillmore, Charles J. (1971). Types of lexical information. In: Steinberg & al. (1971), Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 370-392.
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Handke 1995
Handke, Jürgen (1995). The Structure of the Lexicon: Human versus Machine. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Marslen-Wilson 1992
Marslen-Wilson, William, ed. (1992). Lexical Representation and Process. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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