LINGUIST List 13.2615

Mon Oct 14 2002

Books: Lexicography: Frawley, Hill, Munro (eds.)

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1. laura.driussi, Making Dictionaries: Frawley, Hill, Munro (eds.)

		
Title: Making Dictionaries
Subtitle: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
 http://www.ucpress.edu/

Book URL: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9489.html
			 
Editor: William Frawley 
Editor: Kenneth Hill 
Editor: Pamela Munro 
				
Hardback: ISBN: 0520229959, Pages: 455, Price: $65.00 / GBP 45.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0520229967, Pages: 455, Price: $34.95 / GBP 24.95
			
Abstract:
			
Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the
dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages,
stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by
leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a
comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American
lexicography. The contributors discuss the technical, social, and
personal challenges involved with the complex task of creating a
dictionary of a Native American language. The book is also the first
of its kind to address both standard and new issues surrounding the
challenging task of transforming oral languages in general into
written dictionaries. Making Dictionaries will be an invaluable source
for those involved with all aspects of documenting and understanding
endangered languages and for the increasing number of native
communities engaged in language reclamation and preservation efforts.

CONTENTS:

I. FORM AND MEANING IN THE DICTIONARY
1. Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in
 Dictionaries of the Misumalpa Languages
 Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca

2. Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography: The Cherokee-English
 Dictionary 
 William Pulte and Durbin Feeling

3. Lexical Fuctions as a Heuristic for Huichol
 Joseph E. Grimes

4. Entries for Verbs in American Indian Language Lexicography 
 Pamela Munro

5. Multiple Assertions, Grammatical Constructions, Lexical Pragmatics,
 and the Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottowa Dictionary 
 Richard A. Rhodes

II. ROLE OF THE DICTIONARY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES 
6. Issues of Standardization and Community in Aboriginal Language
 Lexicography 
 Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon

7. A Dictionary for Whom? Tensions between Academic and Nonacademic
 Functions of Bilingual Dictionaries 
 Leanne Hinton and William F. Weigel

8. Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy:
 Reflections from Western Mono 
 Paul V. Kroskrity

III. TECHNOLOGY AND DICTIONARY DESIGN 
9. An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Sixteenth- and
 Seventeenth-Century 
 Nahuatl Una Canger

10. What's in a Word? The Whys and What Fors of a Nahuatl Dictionary
 Jonathan D. Amith

11. The Comparative Siouan Dictionary
 David S. Rood and John E. Koontz

IV. SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
12. Writing a Nez Perce Dictionary
 Haruo Aoki

13. On Publishing the Hopi Dictionary
 Kenneth C. Hill

14. Writing a User-Friendly Dictionary
 Catherine A. Callaghan

15. The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States)
 Project: Principles and Problems 
 William Bright

16. Alonso de Molina as Lexicographer
 Mary L. Clayton and R. Joe Campbell

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
			
Lingfield(s):
Anthropological Linguistics, 
Lexicography, 
Sociolinguistics,
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)