Lexicography

Jack Martin

Location: Business Building 140

Week 1: Tuesday, June 17-Friday, June 20

Period 2: 10:15-11:45 am

Dictionaries are a wonderful way for a community to come together to document its own language and to pass that knowledge on to the next generation. This course focuses on the following aspects of dictionary making:

• Dictionaries for different audiences (children’s dictionaries, online dictionaries, learner’s dictionaries, topical dictionaries, etc.).

• Different models of doing dictionary work and developing a realistic time frame.

• Issues that arise and that might threaten a dictionary project.

• Different methods of gathering vocabulary.

• Using software to make a dictionary.

• Sources for further training and funding.

If possible, the class will apply these ideas by beginning a brief dictionary.