Forensic Dictionary Analysis: Principles and Practice
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2009
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Ogilvie, Sarah
Coleman, Julie
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Oxford University Press
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Lexicographers often provide an account of their working practices and policies, and reviewers and researchers generally take this on trust. Forensic dictionary analysis uses evidence-based methodologies to interrogate the dictionaries themselves about decision-making processes involved in their compilation. The version of events that this reveals is sometimes quite different from compilers' accounts. This paper builds on a variety of approaches in historical dictionary researchstatistical, textual, contextual, and qualitativeto present forensic dictionary analysis as a technique that allows researchers to examine and understand the complex relationships between editorial policy and lexicographic practice.
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Keywords: Dictionaries (18800); Editing (20850); History of Lexicography (32147); Lexicography (46800); Statistical Analysis (83850); Text Analysis (89100)
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International Journal of Lexicography
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