The Development of Afrikaans and the Lexicographical Tradition

Gouws, Rufus H.; Ponelis, Fritz; Zgusta, Ladislav

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“…Gallardo (1980), Gouws & Ponelis (1992), that the compilation of a bilingual dictionary should be regarded as the fi rst priority when a given language does not have any dictionary or has not yet been fully standardised. These arguments also apply to the South African lexicographic situation.…”

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Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography

Gouws¹,

Prinsloo²

2010

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“…The history of Afrikaans lexicography gives enough evidence of the problems encountered due to the untimely start with the compilation of the comprehensive Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal, cf. Gouws & Ponelis (1992), Gouws (1986). The NLUs for the African languages should not make the same mistake.…”

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Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography

Gouws¹,

Prinsloo²

2010

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“…Afrikaans-and English-speaking South Africans had a fairly good command of both languages and the Afrikaans-English / EnglishAfrikaans bilingual diction~es relied, admittedly often too much, on the knowledge of the intended target user. This approach to bilingual dictionaries has not only had a detrimental influence on Afrikaans-English / EnglishAfrikaans dictionaries, but it impeded the development of other South African bilingual dictionaries due to the role-model influence of the leading AfrikaansEnglish dictionaries, d. Gouws and Ponelis (1992) and Gouws (1993). A lexicographical result of this situation is that a single search path in both the outer and inner access structure was a typical characteristic of Afrikaans-English / English-Afrikaans as well as other bilingual South African dictionaries ..…”

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“…In die Suid-Afrikaanse leksikografie het sekere woordeboeke en woordeboeksoorte, en by name die vertalende woordeboeke met Afrikaans en Engels as taalpaar, In dominante invloed gehad. Vergelyk in hierdie verband en Gouws en Ponelis (1992). Hierdie invloed het uitgegaan van In taalpaar waarvan albei die lede die enigste twee amptelike tale van die land was.…”

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“…Since the late seventeenth century, Afrikaans had already been a divergent dialect of Dutch (cf. Gouws and Ponelis 1992). The early development of Afrikaans occurred in a pre-lexicographical environment and colonial Dutch received scant lexicographical attention (cf.…”

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How to Do Language Policy with Dictionaries

Bergenholtz

Gouws

2011

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Abstract:The lexicographical presentation of terms from the field of language planning often lacks clear and unambiguous distinction and proper explanation. Too often dictionaries even fail to include these terms in the lemma list, and some central terms have not been treated in any general or special purpose dictionary. This article utilises results from research in the field of language policy to make suggestions for the lexicographical presentation and treatment of a number of relevant terms. The emphasis on a distinction between language policy as applied to the intralingual and the interlingual level and the motivation for the introduction of the notion of a communication policy should help lexicographers to give a more comprehensive account of terms from this field and it will also benefit scholars in the field of language policy. A second aspect of this article is the discussion of ways in which dictionaries participate in the implementation of language policy. It is indicated that lexicographers make ever so many decisions of a language political nature. In this regard the lexicographical influence of issues like linguistic hegemony and language purism are discussed. Suggestions are also made for future lexicographical procedures. Keywords: COMMUNICATION POLICY, INTERLINGUAL, INTRALINGUAL, LAN-GUAGE PLANNING, LANGUAGE POLICY, LANGUAGE PROMOTION, LEXICOGRAPHY, LINGUISTIC HEGEMONY, PRESCRIPTIVE, PURISMOpsomming: Hoe om taalbeleid met woordeboeke te bepaal. Die leksikografiese aanbieding van terme uit die veld van taalbeplanning kort dikwels duidelike en ondubbelsinnige onderskeiding en behoorlike verklaring. Woordeboeke laat te dikwels na om hierdie terme in die lemmalys in te sluit, en sommige kernterme word in geen algemene of vakwoordeboek behandel nie. Hierdie artikel benut resultate van navorsing op die terrrein van taalbeplanning om voorstelle te maak vir die leksikografiese aanbieding en behandeling van 'n aantal relevante terme. Die klem op die onderskeid tussen taalbeleid soos dit toegepas word op die intratalige en intertalige vlak en die motivering van die invoering van die idee van 'n kommunikasiebeleid behoort leksikograwe te help om 'n meer omvattende verslag te bied van terme vanuit hierdie veld en dit sal ook navorsers op die terrein van taalpolitiek bevoordeel. 'n Tweede aspek van hierdie artikel is die bespreking van maniere waarop woordeboeke deelneem aan die implementering van taalpolitiek.Daar word aangedui dat leksikograwe talle besluite van 'n taalpolitieke aard neem. In hierdie verband word die leksikografiese invloed op kwessies soos linguistiese hegemonie en taalpurisme bespreek. Voorstelle word ook gemaak vir toekomstige leksikografiese werkswyses.

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The Development of Afrikaans and the Lexicographical Tradition

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Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography

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