A "Dictionary of food and restaurant industry (galician-spanish-english)" has...
Photo: @alorenzo64EMLex's insight:The "Dictionary of food and restaurant industry galician-spanish-english" was presented today to employers in Santiago de Compostela. It has been elaborated by the...
View ArticleErin McKean: The joy of lexicography | Big Data Virtual Sales Force
In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
View Article21st-Century Learning Tools: Interactive Visual Dictionaries
"...explore the expanding genre of interactive multi-media visual dictionaries by looking at two very different options. The first by Merriam-Webster and QA International, the Visual Merriam-Webster;...
View ArticleNeues Portal für Lehnwörterbücher geht online
EMLex's insight:Im November wird mit dem „Lehnwortportal Deutsch“ (http://lwp.ids-mannheim.de/) ein neues Informations- und Rechercheangebot des IDS online verfügbar sein. Das Portal ermöglicht einen...
View ArticleDictionary Day
It was the eighth time that the so-called Dictionary Day had been organised by the Dictionary Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The event was held at Károli Gáspár University on 3 October...
View ArticleIn the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us - The Chronicle Review - The...
Redefined, these reference works quickly adapt to current usage and respond to readers' up-to-the-minute interests.See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
View ArticlePioneer lexicographical projects to be presented in Grodno
Pioneer lexicographical projects to be presented in Grodno News of Belarus An international scientific conference “Modern Lexicography” will be hosted by the Grodno university on 10-13 April.See it on...
View ArticleOld English and the lexicography of Old High German
In this lecture I will focus on how Old English affected the early German written record and on the difficulties of its lexicographical description.See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
View ArticleLarousse change its definition of marriage, two MP protest
N'en déplaise aux opposants au mariage pour tous, les professionnels du dictionnaire ont déjà pour la plupart entériné cette évolution de la...See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
View Article"The Last Lexicographers" - Dictionary Society of North America
With the average age of English-language lexicographers "well over 40," fewer openings to train new lexicographers for, and perhaps 100 remaining in the world (which Hargraves believes is actually...
View ArticleComputational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography
Manual lexicography has produced extraordinary results for Greek and Latin, but it cannot in the immediate future provide for all texts the same level of coverage available for the most heavily studied...
View ArticleEMLex - Mestrado Europeu em Lexicografia | European Master in Lexicography
EMLex's insight:EMLex, the European Master in Lexicography, will be also taught by the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal).See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
View ArticleFirst RELEX International Symposium on Romance Lexicography: an actual overview.
Rede de Lexicografía - UDC - USC - UVigoEMLex's insight:RELEX, the galician lexicographical network, will organise an international symposium on romance lexicography. This symposium will be held from...
View ArticlePortal das palabras. A new lexicographic website
EMLex's insight:The Real Academia Galega and the Fundación Barrié de la Maza lauched a new lexicographic website, linked to a mobile app and adressed to users. An interesting didactical section is also...
View ArticleThe Role of a Dictionary
Good writing may exceed the boundaries suggested, if not intended, by dictionary definitions.EMLex's insight:When it happens I feel as if I have stepped into a Far Side cartoon. I am a magazine...
View ArticleDefining a new era, without dictionaries - Syracuse.com (blog)
Defining a new era, without dictionaries Syracuse.com (blog) The dictionary that sat on this desk for the past 24 years looks its age. The spine is missing. The front cover is held together by packing...
View ArticleFrom Materiality No. 1: Birth of a dictionary—An interview with ...
The oldest known dictionaries are cuneiform tablets from the Akkadian Empire, dating roughly to 2300 BC. Since those first marks pressed into clay, dictionaries and other reference books have...
View Article7th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology...
International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology ICHLL 2014EMLex's insight:CHLL is a biennial tradition and provides scholars from different institutions an opportunity to gather and...
View ArticleHistory of English Lexicography
Dictionaries of English, the earliest dictionaries of English, the beginnings of modern lexicography, historical lexicography, and American lexicography.See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
View ArticleThe XVI EURALEX International Congress will be held 15-19 July 2014 in...
EMLex's insight:The motto of this edition of the EURALEX International Congress is: The user in focus.The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers,...
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