SPECIAL ISSUES

The latest special issues of the International Journal of Lexicography include:

Special Issue: Studies In Dictionary Use: Recent Developments
March 2011; Vol 24, Number 1

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About this issue:
The contributors to this special issue have harked back to a crucial period in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when five European lexicographers, likely with mixed enthusiasm and apprehension, decided to compile dictionaries. The five influential dictionaries and the five new perspectives evoke the issues underlying the lexicographers’ convictions and mirror the social and linguistic changes of the era.

Perspectives on Seventeeth- and Eighteenth-Century European Lexicography
Volume 23, Number 2

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About the issue:
The studies as a collection reaffirm the importance of efforts to further develop empirical study into dictionary use. As experimental design, methods and techniques get more sophisticated, what we are getting in return is greater, finer, and ever more useful detail. The studies included here show over and over again that expert opinion, intuition, or purely deductive reasoning cannot replace solid empirical evidence from user studies: dictionary use is just too complex an affair to be that predictable.

The Legacy of John Sinclair
Volume 21, Number 3
Guest edited by Patrick Hanks

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About this issue
John Sinclair was the most radical thinker on the lexicon of the 20th century. His insights into the nature of collocations and discourse structure have inspired new ways of analysing meaning. He was never afraid to face up to awkward questions such as the vague and probabilistic nature of meaning and of evidence of word use. His insistence on close, detailed analysis of evidence played a major role in the development of the emerging discipline of corpus linguistics, now universally recognised as a cornerstone of modern lexicography. In this memorial issue, some of his leading former colleagues and admirers from Asia, Africa, and America as well as Britain and Europe, present a broad spectrum of papers inspired by the Sinclairian approach ranging from practical dictionary making to new developments in linguistic theory.

Previous special issues of the journal include:

Planning Bilingual Dictionaries, the 'Dutch' Approach
Volume 20, Number 3

Corpus-based Studies of German Idioms and Light Verbs
Volume 19, Number 4

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