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Taming words The practical art of lexicography

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Corpus linguistics and lexicography make a natural combination, the first has had many centuries, even millennia, without recourse to a corpus, but with the ar- rival of corpus linguistics the paradigm has changed entirely. It is now impossible to build a decent dictionary of either general or special languages without mak- ing use of a corpus. The exponential rise in corpus linguistics since the 1980s is also largely due to the influence of lexicography with the impetus given by the COBUILD project lead by John Sinclair at the University of Birmingham, and then the building of the British National Corpus by a consortium including major dic- tionary houses. Although there have been numerous books and articles describing corpus-based lexicographical project and the use of corpora in dictionary making, there has to date been no introduction to the art of building dictionaries from corpora. Two books now give a real introduction to corpus-based lexicography for mono- and bilingual dictionaries: The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography (Atkins & Rundell 2008) and Practical Lexicography: a reader (Fontenelle 2007).
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Geoffrey C. Williams. Taming words The practical art of lexicography: The practical art of lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography, 2009, 14 (1), pp.125-132. ⟨10.1075/ijcl.14.1.06wil⟩. ⟨halshs-00510807⟩
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