Extract from "Classroom Literacies" Flashcards
Dictionary
A reference book that offers the meaning of words in a systematic order and provides information about their spelling, pronunciation, origin, use and other grammatical details.
Back matter
The section at the back of the dictionary with useful information about things like countries and measurements
Decode
To understand the meaning of a word that is unfamiliar to you.
Encode
To convey meaning using words so that others will be able to understand.
Front matter
Written introduction to a dictionary containing a users guide.
Headword/lemma
The word you are looking up in a dictionary.
Lemmatisation
Strategies used to decide on the form of the lemma (i.e. nouns or noun stems)
Lexicography
The specialist activity of writing or editing dictionaries.
The earliest dictionaries were compiled by…
Assyrians on clay tablets and the Egyptians on papyrus
Before the Oxford English Dictionary, which English dictionary was most widely used?
Dr Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
When was Dr Samuel Johnson’s dictionary published?
1755
Lexicographers view lexicography as…
A science
Lexicographer
The compiler of a dictionary
What are the two most basic kinds of dictionaries?
- Bilingual dictionaries
- Monolingual dictionaries
When was the Oxford English dictionary first published?
1965
