Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography

The supplementary volume on the Handbooks on Dictionaries will extend the presentation of lexicography. It will continue to present the status and function of lexicographic reference works up to the present time within the cultural systems of societies, with special reference to the new digital forms of lexicography. It will expand and modify presented excerpts of a general theory of lexicography in its four sections, i.e. research into the use of dictionaries, research of dictionary criticism, historical and systematic dictionary research, with the aim that metalexicography can document its academic status as scientific discipline with an independent formation of a theory, that has been established in the last decade. It will complement the description of all phases of the lexicographic process, especially by means of the presentation of the new methods based on electronic corpora, by means of the discussion of the new possibilities of computer-assistance as well as the consideration of the linking possibilities of different types of lexicographic processes. It also includes the presentation of lexicographic training and lexicographic institutions.