Guide to Practical Online Lexicography

<p><i>A Guide to Practical Online Lexicography</i> provides a step-by-step course on digital lexicography discussing state-of-the-art theoretical lexicography and offering a guide to practical lexicography with a focus on monolingual online dictionaries.</p><p>Dictionaries today need to be designed and made for online environments use up-to-date technologies in all aspects of lexicography and have adequate business models in place for financing them. This book:</p><ul> <li>Covers lexicographic data and categories of existing online dictionaries and shows how to plan analyse and store data</li> <li>Discusses the relationship between technology dictionary users and dictionary makers lexicographic developments and economic costs</li> <li>Provides an in-depth case study of designing and making the <em>Diccionario Digital del Español (DIDES)</em> an online dictionary of Spanish edited by the author</li> <li>Includes further reading recommendations practical activities and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter</li> </ul><p>Drawing on materials developed by the author from his experience of over 20 years of lecturing in universities and institutions globally this is a practical go-to guide to online lexicography for students of lexicography e-lexicographers and researchers.</p>