Applied Lexicography (field) the practice of creating dictionaries

Applied Lexicography is an interdisciplinary sub-field of study within Lexicography that concerns the practice of creating dictionaries. It belongs to the broader branch of science called Integrated Science. As an interdisciplinary field of study, its constituent disciplines include Comparative Linguistics, Etymology, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Morphology, Orthography, Philology, and perhaps others. This term belongs mainly to the broader category called Language.

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Constituent fields of Applied Lexicography

  • Comparative Linguistics (sub-field) the scientific study of comparing languages
  • Etymology (interdisciplinary sub-field) the study of word origins
  • Historical Linguistics (sub-field) the scientific study of language change over time
  • Linguistics (field) the scientific study of language
  • Morphology (sub-field) the study of word forms and their relationships to other words
  • Orthography (sub-field) the study of writing conventions for a given language
  • Philology (interdisciplinary sub-field) the study of oral and historical written language

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PsychLing Contributors. "Applied Lexicography." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 10 Sep. 2023, psylng.org/glossary/field/applied-lexicography. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

APA 6

PsychLing (2023, September 10). Applied Lexicography. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/glossary/field/applied-lexicography

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PsychLing Contributors. "Applied Lexicography." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created September 10, 2023. Modified September 15, 2023. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://psylng.org/glossary/field/applied-lexicography.

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DLP

Crystal, David, ed. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2011.

WTED § 9

Gouws, Rufus H. "Internet Lexicography in the 21st Century." In Wortschatz: Theorie, Empirie, Dokumentation, edited by Stefan Engelberg, Heidrun Kämper, and Petra Storjohann, 215–236. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110538588] [Visit]

WM

Internet Archive Contributors. "Wayback Machine." San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. Created October 24, 2001. Accessed July 21, 2023. https://web.archive.org. [Visit]

EL21C

Kosem, Iztok, and Karmen Kosem, eds. Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century: New Applications for New Users. Proceedings of eLex 2011, Bled, Slovenia, November 10–12, 2011. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Trojina.

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