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CFP: Australex 2013: Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival

The 2013 meeting of Australex, centered on the theme of "Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival," will be held at The University of Adelaide, Australia, 25-27 July 2013.

Call for Papers: Papers may address a wide range of areas associated with lexicography, lexicology, endangered languages, Revival Linguistics, contact linguistics, social empowerment through language, and words, culture and identity. Topics may include dictionaries in Indigenous, minority and other endangered communities, dialectal lexicons, the educational and cultural roles of dictionaries, talknological dictionaries, dictionaries and Native Tongue Title, lexical engineering, and language policy and lexicography. Papers can address controversies such as the ‘Give us authenticity or give us death’ argument and the descriptive/prescriptive debate. Other topics may include learners’ dictionaries, specialist dictionaries, phraseology, proverbs, onomastics and terminology. Proposals for panels, papers or posters are due to organizer Julia Miller  by 1 December 2012.

For details on abstracts and more information about the conference, including student bursaries, visit the Australex website. 

2013 DSNA meeting in Athens, GA--looking ahead

The 19th Biennial Meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America will be held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The program will begin with lectures on the morning of Thursday, May 23 and will run through Saturday afternoon, May 25. The University Library’s Special Collections Department will give guided tours of historical collections, such as the Senator Richard Russell collection, as well as the Peabody Awards collection.

Those wishing to present papers (no longer than 20 minutes) should send abstracts or questions to Don McCreary at mccreary@uga.edu no later than10 January 2013. Abstracts for papers on any topic relating to the history, theory, or practice of lexicography are welcome. Queries by mail should be sent to: Don R. McCreary, Department of English, Park Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

A conference website and information on registration, lodging, and travel will be available later this year.

Lexicograffiti

The Lexicograffiti Seminar (23 January 2012) was the 4th seminar of the cycle Terminology in the Changing World of Translation. This seminar covered the topic of lexicography and e-lexicography and included presentations by Gerhard Budin, director of the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology at the Austrian Academy of Science, speaking on the evolution of electronic dictionaries from the paper-based format, as well as practical experiences and conclusions for the management of large term databases; and Sylviane Granger, of the Catholic University of Louvain, who addressed customizable dictionary-cum-corpus web-based tools. Their presentations, and other information, are available on the Lexicograffiti website.

News from AFRILEX

The Board of AFRILEX (i.e. the African Association for Lexicography) has decided to turn Lexikos into an open-access journal. Starting with Volume 21 (2011), Lexikos is now freely available to all online readers. Back issues are being added as they are digitized and indexed. The journal is online here.

Also, the 17th International AFRILEX conference has released its Call for Papers.  The conference will be held 3-5 July 2012 in Pretoria, South Africa. Abstracts for papers on any aspect of lexicography or terminology are invited.

CFP: Euralex 2012 in Oslo

Papers, posters and software demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields, which are the main focus of the congress:

• Lexicography and national Identity
• Indigenous Languages and Lexicography
• Corpus-driven Lexicography
• Lexicography in Language Technology
• Multilingual Lexicography
• Lexicography and semantic Theory
• Terminology, LSP and Lexicography
• Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects

Papers, posters and demonstrations relevant to the congress, but which do not fit into any of the categories above, will be reviewed and considered for presentation.

For details on proposal requirements and other information, visit http://www.hf.uio.no/euralex.

McGill University Lexicography Exhibition and Shelf List

To welcome the Eighteenth Biennial Meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America to McGill University, June 8–11, 2011, Rare Books and Special Collections of McGill University Library prepared a special exhibition of rare books and manuscripts related to lexicography. Languages represented by these books and manuscripts included Eskimo, Huron, Cree, Ottawa, Chinook Jargon, Tshimpsean, Hydah, Blackfoot, Micmac, French, Latin, Italian, and English. The descriptions that accompanied these items provide much valuable information, and we are glad to be able to publish them here. Special thanks are due to Ann Marie Holland, Liaison Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library, for arranging the exhibition and for making these descriptions available to us.

Deadline extended for Australex 2011

The deadline for submitting proposals to "Australex 2011 -- Dictionaries inside and outside the classroom" has been extended till Monday, 1 August. For more information on the conference, which will be held in Canberra 28 & 29 November, visit the Australex 2011 website.

New volume on the history of lexicography

Michael Adams announces the publication of Cunning passages, contrived corridors: Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography in Polimetrica’s series, “Lexicography worldwide: theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives,” which is edited by DSNA member Giovanni Iamartino.

The volume includes 14 articles, shorter versions of which were presented at the 2009 DSNA meeting in Bloomington: “Legendary Lexicography: Joseph Bosworth’s Debt to Henry J. Todd’s Edition of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language,” by Dabney A. Bankert; “Collaboration, Competition, Confrontation: The Oxford English Dictionary’s Associations with Other Dictionaries, c. 1880-1900,” by Peter Gilliver; “The OED and the Stanford Dictionary Controversy: Plagiarism or Paranoia?” by Sarah Ogilvie; “‘There is much, very much, in the name of a book’ or, the Famous Title of Hobson-Jobson and How It Got That Way,” by Traci Nagle; “Historical or Sociological Methods in Slang Lexicography: Partridge, Maurer, and Cant,” by Julie Coleman; “Defining Health: Melancholy and Mutation in Early Modern and Modern Medical Dictionaries,” by Jennifer Burek Pierce; “Ludicrous Exaggerations and Colloquial Licenses: ‘Prescriptive Labels in Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language,” by Kate Wild; “‘A hackneyed phrase’: splendid misery as a Case Study in Quotation Usage,” by Elizabeth Knowles; “The Dictionary in an Era of Change: Butuzov’s English-Russian Dictionary of English Slang,” by Donna M. T. Cr. Farina and George Durman; “From Altieri to Zanichelli: an Historical Overview of Idioms in Bilingual Italian-English Dictionaries,” by Chris Mulhall; and a group of four foundational essays on the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary by Christian Kay, Irené Wotherspoon, Kate Wild, and Marc Alexander.

The editor and contributors hope that the volume will interest many DSNA members and urge our college and university-based colleagues to encourage libraries at their respective institutions to acquire it. The volume is available at the Polimetrica website www.polimetrica.com (which requires a PayPal account) and at Amazon (which does not). All in all, those who purchase the volume will have 323 pages of the best history of lexicography around for USD59.00 (through Polimetrica) or USD46.09 (through Amazon).

CFP: Australex 2011: Dictionaries inside and outside the classroom

Australex 2011 will meet 28-29 November at Australian National University, Canberra, as part of Canberra Langfest 2011.

The conference topic is "Dictionaries inside and outside the classroom." Paper proposals may address a wide range of areas associated with the educational and cultural roles of dictionaries. Topics might include: learners dictionaries, dictionaries in indigenous communities, online
dictionaries, the present state of the descriptive/prescriptive debate, specialist dictionaries, dictionary entry style, phraseology, language policy and lexicography, terminology and terminography, and the social and cultural functions of regional dictionaries. To submit a paper, poster or panel contribution, please send an abstract of no more than 400 words to Adam Smith by 1 July 2011. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 15 July 2011.

Proceedings of the conference will be published online. For more information, visit the Australex 2011 website.

International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography 2011

The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography is taking place in Kyoto, Japan, from August 22-24, 2011.

Plenary speakers are
- Professor Zafar Iqbal (President, ASIALEX; University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan)
- Professor Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
- Professor Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan)

There are also going to be some 80 presentations, a few symposia, and a workshop. Early-bird registration and discount rates are open until April 30, 2011.

Please refer to the conference website for details: http://www.asialex2011.org/.