Hartmann R.R.K. (Editor). Lexicography: Critical Concepts. Volume II Reference Works across Time, Space and Languages

Routledge, 2003. — 383 pages. — ISBN: 0-415-25365-9.This 3-volume collection is intended to bring together 70 texts by 75 authors to give an overview of the literature on the theory and practice of Lexicography. Although there are now quite a few textbooks and periodicals available, lexicography as an academic subject is still relatively young, and there are no comprehensive collections of classical and other significant writings on dictionary-making and dictionary research.Historical Perspectives
Thomas Dyche and William Pardon’s A New General English Dictionary (1735)The Encyclopedic in relation to the nine predecessors
The contribution of historical and comparative linguistics
The history of pronunciation in English-language dictionaries
Lexicographic archaeology: comparing dictionaries of the same family
The three-century recension in Spanish and English lexicography
Gove and Webster’s Third: the legacy
Murray and his European counterparts
Regional Perspectives
The influence of Arabic lexicography
Current trends in Indian lexicography
Chinese lexicography past and present
Innovative practices in French monolingual learners’ dictionaries as compared with their English counterparts
Lexicography in Australia
A survey of contemporary Italian lexicography
Lexicography of the Persian language, with special reference to lexicomputing
Towards the formulation of a metalexicographically motivated model for the National Lexicography Units in South Africa
Linguistic Perspectives
The dictionary: study of the vocabulary
Special grammatical designations for indigenous languages
Australian Aboriginal lexicography
Lexicographical treatment of idioms and proverbs
Lexicographical treatment of affixational morphology: a case study of four Swahili dictionaries
The bilingual dictionary: definition, history, bidirectionality
Dictionaries of Spanish in their historical context
A multifunctional software application for electronic dictionaries