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Target Users' Expectations versus the Actual Compilation of a Shona Children's Dictionary
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In: Lexikos, Vol 19, Iss 0 (2011) (2011)
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Abstract: The article discusses the challenges that confronted the team of compilers working on the monolingual Shona Children's Dictionary (henceforth SCD). It looks at the active involvement of the target users in shaping the project and discusses the considerations for the implementation of their recommenda-tions. Matters of concern include issues of headword selection, especially problems of dialect representation in the dictionary. The article also discusses the inclusion of grammatical information such as tone marking. The SCD is one of the many efforts to promote and raise the functions of the indigenous languages in Zim-babwe. Of special interest in this article is therefore the discussion on the inclusion of international words like those denoting weight, distance and mathematical and scientific concepts. The article also considers the treatment of taboo words in the SCD, which takes into account that society has to open up culturally to be able to unequivocally view some of the aspects of life with which present-day children are confronted. The article lastly discusses how a balance was reached for accommodating the target users' proposal for the inclusion of an elaborate back matter in view of the limited available scope and space of the SCD.
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Africa; BACK MATTER; DIALECT REPRESENTATION; DICTIONARY; Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages; INTERNATIONAL WORDS; Languages and literature of Eastern Asia; LEXICOGRAPHY; Oceania; P1-1091; PD1-7159; Philology. Linguistics; PL1-8844; TABOO WORDS; TARGET USERS; TONE MARKING
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/8facc886304e43f38789a965617e8b13 https://doi.org/10.5788/19-0-184
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Ideophones in Zulu
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In: Lexikos, Vol 19 (2011) (2011)
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Des considérations sur la lexicographie et la linguistique au Gabon*
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In: Lexikos, Vol 16 (2011) (2011)
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A New Way to Lemmatize Adjectives in a User-friendly Zulu–English Dictionary
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In: Lexikos, Vol 18 (2011) (2011)
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Linguistic Theory in the Practical Lexicography of the African Languages
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In: Lexikos, Vol 19, Iss 0 (2011) (2011)
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Namibian University Entrants' Concepts of 'a Dictionary'
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In: Lexikos, Vol 20, Iss 0 (2011) (2011)
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The Use of an Improved Access Structure in Dictionaries*
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In: Lexikos, Vol 11 (2011) (2011)
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The Use of Examples in Polyfunctional Dictionaries
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In: Lexikos, Vol 10 (2011) (2011)
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Internationalisation, Localisation and Customisation Aspects of the Dictionary Application TshwaneLex
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In: Lexikos, Vol 16 (2011) (2011)
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Dictionaries of Canadian English
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In: Lexikos, Vol 13 (2011) (2011)
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Lexicography versus Terminography
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In: Lexikos, Vol 11 (2011) (2011)
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Revising Matumo's Setswana-English-Setswana Dictionary
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In: Lexikos, Vol 14 (2011) (2011)
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Access Routes of Internet Finance Dictionaries: Present Solutions and Future Opportunities
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In: Lexikos, Vol 20, Iss 0 (2011) (2011)
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The Lemmatization of Copulatives in Northern Sotho *
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In: Lexikos, Vol 12 (2011) (2011)
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Function-related Secondary User Needs and Secondary Data? A Critical Examination of Some Central Concepts in the Modern Theory of Lexicographical Functions
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In: Lexikos, Vol 19 (2011) (2011)
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Do Dictionary Users Really Look Up Frequent Words?-On the Overestimation of the Value of Corpus-based Lexicography
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In: Lexikos, Vol 16 (2011) (2011)
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Kiswahili Verbs: A Lexicographical Challenge
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In: Lexikos, Vol 17 (2011) (2011)
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'n Praktiese benadering tot die samestelling van 'n tweerigtingvakwoordeboek met Afrikaans en Italiaans as taalpaar
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In: Lexikos, Vol 12 (2011) (2011)
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New Advances in Corpus-based Lexicography*
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In: Lexikos, Vol 13 (2011) (2011)
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Volkslinguïstiek en dialectlexicografie in de zuidelijke Nederlanden
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In: Lexikos, Vol 19 (2011) (2011)
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