TY - BOOK ID - 17144806 TI - Lexicography in the borderland between knowledge and non-knowledge PY - 2008 VL - 134 SN - 01759264 SN - 9783484391345 3484391340 3119164453 9786612197260 1282197266 348497043X 9783484970434 9781282197268 PB - Berlin Walter de Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Sublanguage KW - Lexicography KW - Philosophy KW - Lexicography. KW - Philosophy. KW - Encyclopedias and dictionaries KW - Sublanguage - Lexicography KW - Lexicography - Philosophy KW - Language Acquisition. KW - Learner's Dictionaries. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17144806 AB - The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners' dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of example ER -