Dear Sir/Madam,
Good day.
Would you please help to distribute the announcement of call for papers of
this special issue?
Thank you.
*Call for papers*
*Lexicography: Journal of ASIALEX*
Co-Editors-in-Chief: Hai Xu and Shigeru Yamada
*Special theme for Vol. 7, No.1 (June, 2020):*
*Lexicography for loan words and words with special orthography*
Guest editors: Shan Wang and Chu-Ren Huang
Deadline for paper submission: January 31, 2020
Online submission and detail:
https://www.springer.com/journal/40607/submission
Papers are invited for publication in *Lexicography* 7.1 with the special
theme “Lexicography for loan words and words with special orthography”.
*Scope and Motivation*
Loan words and other lexical items with non-standard orthography pose a
special challenge to lexicography but also offers rich reward as they open
windows to language contact and change, lexical innovation, as well as to
the cross-fertilization between two (or more) cultures. Lexical items and
systems that will be relevant to this special theme include but not limit
to: blissymbolics, conversational sounds, emoji, hiragana/katakana/kanji
and other code-mixing systems, Mandarin alphabetic words (aka ‘letter
words’), onomatopoeia, etc.
*Possible topics*
-Terminology: medical, scientific, technical
-Terminography: defining and describing specialized terminology
-Specialized lexicography in medical and scientific fields
-Termontography and uses of ontology in specialized lexicography
-Verbal and graphic visualizations of terminology
-Levels of technicality in specialized vocabulary
-Specialized dictionary types: monolingual, bilingual, bilingualized,
social/literal studies, historical perspectives
-Intended users: first or second language learners; students; trainees in
health sciences; doctors, nurses
and other health professionals
-Dictionary media: print, digital (websites including apps, CD-ROM,
hand-held devices)
-Exploitation of digital medium: multimedia; interactive dimensions
-Lexicographic perspectives: users, language teachers, publishers, editors,
dictionary makers
-Initiatives: individual, intramural, local, national, international
-Teaching terminology and specialized vocabulary; training in dictionary
use and terminology acquisition
-Research into pedagogy of acquiring terminology: in professional contexts;
via terminological dictionaries, termbank use
-Influence/implications for compilation of specialized
dictionaries/termbanks and their design: use of corpus techniques;
optimizing user interface, mediostructure and external links; frontiers
with encyclopedic sources, etc.
-Relationship of specialized lexicography with national and international
terminology authorities
Best wishes,
WANG Shan
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