Lexicography: An Introduction provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential reference works. Howard Jackson analyses a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and learners’ dictionaries, including those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource.
Why write a dictionary of biomedical sciences? After all, several medical and science dictionaries have been published in the lastfew years. To answer that question it is first necessary to consider what is meant by ‘biomedical science’. Biomedical science involves and relates biological, medical and physical science. Biomedical scientists must be familiar with a great number of technical terms, many of which are from disciplines other than their own speciality, including anatomy, audiology, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computing science, cytology, genetics, haematology, histology, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, molecular biology, microscopy, mycology, parasitology, pharmacology, physics, physiology, radiology, statistics, virology, and so on. So the answer to the initial question is that the dictionaries published to date do not provide the mix of terminology within a single volume that is required of biomedical scientists and none have had the aims of the present dictionary.
This acclaimed ''dictionary of dictionaries'' provides a detailed examination of the theoretical and practical aspects of the field. Topics include:
* traditions of dictionary-making * different types of dictionaries and other reference works (such as thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas and directory) * principles and concerns of lexicographers and other reference professionals * standards of dictionary criticism and dictionary use
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