TY - BOOK ID - 78373969 TI - English-Latvian lexicographic tradition : a critical analysis PY - 2015 SN - 3110394294 3110365766 9783110365764 9783110365788 3110365782 9783110394290 3110369877 9783110369878 3110365782 3110369877 9783110369878 PB - Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Lexicography. KW - Dictionaries, Polyglot. KW - English language KW - Dictionaries, Multilingual KW - Languages, Modern KW - Multilingual dictionaries KW - Polyglot dictionaries KW - Encyclopedias and dictionaries KW - Language and languages KW - Latvian. KW - Polyglot KW - Germanic languages KW - Bilingual Dictionary. KW - English. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78373969 AB - Since 1987 when the first English explanatory dictionary fully based on corpus evidence was published, considerable changes related to the choice of lexicographic evidence have affected the field of lexicography. On this background (even though the volume of the lexicographic material is ample) the English-Latvian lexicographic tradition looks rather traditional and even somewhat stagnant. Thus, there is an urgent need for a detailed analytical inventory of English-Latvian dictionaries in order to facilitate new dictionary projects. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development of the English-Latvian lexicographic tradition considering the various extra-linguistic factors which have influenced it. It studies the typical features of English-Latvian dictionaries traced throughout the tradition at the levels of their mega-, macro- and microstructure, pinpoints the problematic aspects of English-Latvian lexicography and offers theoretically grounded solutions for improving the quality of future English-Latvian dictionaries. ER -