Description
Book SynopsisA Guide to Practical Online Lexicography provides a step-by-step course on digital lexicography, discussing state of art of theoretical lexicography and offering a guide to practical lexicography, with a focus on monolingual online dictionaries.
Dictionaries today need to be designed and made for online environments, use up-to-date technologies in all aspects of lexicography, and have adequate business models in place for financing them. This book:
â Covers lexicographic data and categories of existing online dictionaries, and shows how to plan, analyse and store data
â Discusses the relationship between technology, dictionary users and dictionary makers, lexicographic developments, and economic costs
â Provides an in-depth case study of designing and making the Diccionario Digital del EspaÃol (DIDES), an online dictionary of Spanish edited by the author
â Includes further reading recommendations, practical activities, and questions for discussio
