Frontmatter -- Introduction -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- PART I. HISTORICAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE GENERAL DICTIONARY -- LEXICOGRAPHY AS AN ACADEMIC SUBJECT -- ON THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS OF A GENERAL THEORY OF LEXICOGRAPHY -- CARIBBEAN ENGLISH AS A CHALLENGE TO LEXICOGRAPHY -- LEXICOGRAPHY AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: CANADA AND THE WORLD CUP -- UPDATING A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION -- TWO PRINCIPLES IN DEFINITIONS OF AN EXPLANATORY-COMBINATORIAL DICTIONARY -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF ENTRIES IN THE 'ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY1 (1668) OF JOHN WILKINS AND WILLIAM LLOYD -- CAN A DICTIONARY OF -ISMS BE AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY? -- THE COMMUNICATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOME LEXICOGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS -- THE HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF ENGLISH -- FRANCISCUS JUNIUS, 17TH-CENTURY LEXICOGRAPHY AND MIDDLE ENGLISH -- METHODS OF ORDERING SENSES WITHIN ENTRIES -- THE ETYMOLOGY OF EUROPEANISMS, OR: LEXICOGRAPHERS' DIFFICULTIES WITH 'LEXICOGRAPHER' -- THE LANGUAGE OF EXPLANATION IN MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES -- TOWARDS A THEORY OF LEXICOGRAPHY: PRINCIPLES AND/VS. PRACTICE IN MODERN ENGLISH DICTIONARIES -- POLYSEMY -- SEXISM IN DICTIONARIES -- PART II. BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE PEDAGOGICAL DICTIONARY -- TRANSLATIONAL EQUIVALENCE IN THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY -- EFL DICTIONARIES: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND PRESENT NEEDS -- THE PRONUNCIATION COMPONENT OF AN ENGLISH-DUTCH DICTIONARY -- RECENT AND FORTHCOMING CHINESE-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARIES FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- STUDYING DICTIONARY USE: SOME FINDINGS AND PROPOSALS -- FALSE FRIENDS INVIGORATED -- CONTEXTUAL!ZATION AND THE BILINGUAL LEARNER'S DICTIONARY -- 'ACTIVE' AND 'PASSIVE' BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES: THE SCERBA CONCEPT RECONSIDERED -- ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES IN A BILINGUAL COLLOQUIAL DICTIONARY -- TECHNICAL OR GENERAL: PROBLEMS OF VOCABULARY SELECTION IN A MEDIUM-SIZE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY -- LEXICAL FIELDS AND STEPWISE LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION IN A CONTRASTIVE ENGLISH-SPANISH VERB VALENCY DICTIONARY -- CONSTRUCTING AN ENTRY IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY OF STANDARD KISWAHILI -- SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS OF 'SET' AND SOME OF ITS FRENCH EQUIVALENTS -- PROBLEMS IN IMPROVING JAPANESE ENGLISH-LEARNERS' DICTIONARIES -- REFLECTIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF PREPOSITIONS IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A STATISTICAL APPROACH -- IMPROVING THE USABILITY OF THE FINNISH COMPREHENSION DICTIONARY -- THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY - HELP OR HINDRANCE? -- BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES AND THE NOTION OF 'LEXICAL CATEGORIES' IN CHINESE -- THE CULTURE-BOUND ELEMENT IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES -- PART III. COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE TERMINOLOGICAL DICTIONARY -- DICTIONARIES AND COMPUTERS -- Terminology and the technical dictionary -- COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR AN ANALYSIS OF TERMINOLOGICAL DATA IN A GENERAL DICTIONARY -- NOTES ON THE ARABIZATION OF THE TERMINOLOGY OF MODERN LINGUISTICS -- FROM DICTIONARY TO DATA-BASE -- TERMINOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN LINGUISTICS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEOLOGISMS -- TERMINOLOGY WORK IN NORWAY AND THE NORWEGIAN TERM BANK -- THREE TYPES OF TERMINOLOGIES -- ON ROOTING OUT WORDS WITH INFLATED FREQUENCIES IN WORD-COUNTS OF SPECIALIZED REGISTERS -- COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESSING OF CHINESE LEXICOGRAPHIC MATERIALS -- HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES AND THE COMPUTER - ANOTHER VIEW -- THE PRO'S AND CON'S OF A CONTROLLED DEFINING VOCABULARY IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY -- CONTRASTIVE CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF NOUN COMPOUND TERMS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH WITHIN A RESTRICTED, SPECIALIZED DOMAIN -- LEXICOGRAPHICAL TERMINOLOGY: SOME OBSERVATIONS -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BILINGUAL DICTIONARY -- TO LIST, OR NOT TO LIST? COMPUTER-AIDED WORD LISTS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES -- SETTING UP A LEXICOGRAPHICAL DATA-BASE FOR GERMAN -- UTILIZATION OF A COMMERCIAL LINGUISTIC DATA-BASE SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC STORAGE AND AUTOMATED PRODUCTION OF DICTIONARIES -- THE 'PROLEX' PROJECT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CITED DICTIONARIES -- LIST OF AUTHORS' AFFILIATIONS