Lexicography

The lexicography consists with to count the words, the to classify, the to define and the to illustrate, for examples or expressions, to give an account of the whole of their Signification S and their Acception S within the language given, in order to constitute a dictionary.

The first dictionaries of importance are not so old that and the user of a dictionary seldom realizes of the quantity of work which hides behind the book that he consults.

Pierre Larousse (1817-1875) even died before seeing its completed dictionary.

The lexicography goes hand in hand today with Informatique. Data processing largely accelerates and facilitates the task of the lexicographer attached to the drafting of a dictionary. Many languages which would have been formerly condemned to disappearance because of the scarcity of their speakers and the cost of the creation of a dictionary paper, are now saved provided that only one qualified individual takes for mission the collection of the words and the expressions which constitute any language.

; Famous lexicographers

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Internal bonds

Articles holding of the lexicography

  • Antonym
  • Archaism
  • Connotation
  • Denotation
  • Dialect
  • Etymology
  • Hyponyme
  • Pejorative Hyperonyme
  • Semantic Referent
  • Regionalism
  • Meaning
  • Meant
  • Synonymous

Related articles

Reference books

  • Roland Eluerd. Lexicology . What do I know? No 3548 Paris: University presses of France, 2000,128 p. ISBN 2130505775

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