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1	African Language Dictionaries for Children — A Neglected Genre
	Elsabé Taljard; Danie Prinsloo
	In: Lexikos, Vol 29, Pp 199-223 (2019) (2019)
	Abstract: Children's dictionaries are instrumental in establishing a dictionary culture and are the gateway to sustained and informed dictionary use. It is therefore surprising that very little attention is paid to these dictionaries in scholarly research. In this article we reflect on the design of two series of dictionaries and one free-standing dictionary, all presumably aimed at first-time dictionary users, specifically looking at how selected design elements are aligned with the lexicographic needs of the target users. We argue that the conceptualization of children's dictionaries for African-language-speaking children should be a bottom-up process, and that an Afrocentric approach, taking the target user's Frame of Reference as the point of departure, is preferable to a Eurocentric approach, which often leads to a mismatch between conceptual relationships and linguistic form and function in African language dictionaries.
	Keyword: Africa; african language dictionaries; afrocentric approach to dictionary compilation; children's dictionaries; Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages; Languages and literature of Eastern Asia; Oceania; P1-1091; PD1-7159; Philology. Linguistics; PL1-8844; theory of lexicographic communication; user's frame of reference (for); user's perspective
	URL: https://doaj.org/article/921f04072e144360bf9ac566cfa18c21 https://doi.org/10.5788/29-1-1518
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