Register marks in bilingual dictionaries

Presentation

This book examines several issues related to the theory and practice of lexicographic marking in monolingual and multilingual dictionaries, such as the nature of usage and register marks, the principles of marking, the evolution of marks and their variation, avenues for improving lexicographic practices, the use and correspondence of marks for labeling non-standard and substandard terms, the establishment of a comprehensive and non-contradictory marking system for this specific type of lexicon. The languages studied and analyzed in the book are French, English, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish and Ukrainian.

Director

Gueorgui Armianov is a lecturer (HC) in Bulgarian language and linguistics at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Sorbonne Paris Cité University. He has been a researcher-lexicographer at the Bulgarian Language Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and has taught Bulgarian linguistics at Sofia University, the University of London, Oxford University and Strasbourg University.

His scientific interests include Bulgarian grammar and lexicology, monolingual and bilingual lexicography, sociolinguistics, linguistic contacts between Slavic languages and between Balkan languages.

216 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 14/01/2021
ISBN: 9782858313754