Linguistic Foundations of Ideography: Semantic Analysis and Ideographic Dictionaries

Contents:

Introduction; I. Lexicography and the Study of Meaning (Lexicography as an Academic Discipline; Metalexicography and Linguistic Description of the Lexicon; Summary); II. The Scope of Ideography (Why the Term "Ideographic Dictionary"?; General Principles of Lemmata Organization within the Word List; Borderline Cases: Analogical, Pictorial, and Associative Dictionaries; Aims and Objectives of Metaideography; Summary); III. The Typology of the Existing Ideographic Dictionaries (Preliminaries; The Thesaural Approach to the Classificatory Scheme Design; The Thematic Approach to the Classificatory Scheme Design; The Systemic Approach to the Classificatory Scheme Design; Problems and Controversies of Metaideography; Summary); IV. Developments in Linguistic Semantics and their Significance for Ideography (Field Theory and Ideography; Categorization, Framing of Concepts, and Ideography; Everyday Concepts, Expert Concepts, and Worldview; Frames, Scripts, and Related Theoretical Constructs; Summary); V. Pedagogical Metaideography: The Design of a Learner's Ideographic Dictionary of the General Vocabulary (The Scope of Pedagogical Lexicography; The Scope of Pedagogical Ideography; The Unit of Description in Pedagogical Ideography; The Learner's Ideographic Dictionary of the General Vocabulary; The Ideographic Dictionary: Communicative Grammar Interface; Explication of Meaning in a Learner-Oriented Ideographic Dictionary; Summary); VI. Applications of Theoretical Semantic Research in Ideographic Description of the Lexicon (Lexicographic Investigation in Ideography: Problems and Perspectives; Lexicographic Investigation in Ideography: Result and Their Representation; Summary); Conclusion: Perspectives and Prospectives; Bibliography (Lexicographic Publications)