Lexicography : Journal of ASIALEX

Includes bibliographical references.

Dictionaries of Japanese mimetic words: defining the mimetic category by the selection of lexical items -- Designing and making commercially driven integrated dictionary portals: the Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa -- The Event-Domain Cognitive Model perspective on terminology: A case study of atmospheric environment terms.

[Article Title : Dictionaries of Japanese mimetic words: defining the mimetic category by the selection of lexical items / Daniel Ruiz Martinez, p. 1-20] Abstract : In this paper, an analysis of the selection of lexical items in Japanese mimetic dictionaries is presented to discuss the theoretical definition of Japanese mimetic words in lexicographic practice from the point of view of Japanese mimetic linguistics. By examining the selection of lexical items listed in six Japanese mimetic dictionaries, this study attempts to determine the way in which dictionary-makers identify and represent the Japanese mimetic words as a lexical category. Adopting a mainly descriptive approach, this paper analyzes the lexical selection of four monolingual and two bilingual mimetic dictionaries. Firstly, formal and etymological criteria for selecting dictionary entries are discussed. Secondly, the coverage of each selection is compared. Next, special attention is given to whether selected mimetics are presented as primary or secondary items (namely lemmatical or non-lemmatical items) from a lexicographic perspective and, finally, the proportions of each type of item are contrasted.;[Article Title : Designing and making commercially driven integrated dictionary portals: the Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa / Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera, p. 21-42] Abstract : Integrated dictionary portals such as the Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa are reference tools prepared by the same team and equipped with Dictionary Writing Systems that consists of editors, databases, Web interfaces, management tools, and a kind of dictionary grammar which specifies a common structure for all the dictionaries of the portal. They were designed and are being constructed by the joint efforts of lexicographers, IT and domain experts, and a language technology Danish company. The project started in the year 2014, initially following Bergenholtz's works in several commercially oriented Danish dictionaries. It has now been accommodated to new lexicographic insights and technological developments, and is on the road to "producing" around 28 integrated dictionaries as well as specific search devices, e.g. for searching Spanish Americanisms or specific translations of specific expressions. The project is based on the tenets of the Function Theory of Lexicography, Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation, and assumptions on the economic potential of lexicographic data. For reasons of space and target readership, this paper will be mostly concerned with presenting the concept of typological individualization, i.e. offering specific data types for specific user types in specific situation types.;[Article Title : The Event-Domain Cognitive Model perspective on terminology: A case study of atmospheric environment terms / Yi Peng, p. 43-67] Abstract : While terminology as independent discipline has moved toward two general orientations-the direction of the traditional terminology once predominating in early terminological development and the conflicting ones occurring afterward-some essential issues of terminology still remain of concern, for example, relations between terms, concepts, and the world. Following the literature review on earlier research of such relations, two triangles similar to the semiotic triangle based on previous pertinent philosophy and linguistics are proposed. One is the triangle underlying traditional terminology; the other is linked with the cognitive linguistic perspective on terminology or cognitive terminology, for instance, Temmerman (Toward New Ways of Terminology Description: The Sociocognitive Approach. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2000) and Faber (Investigar en terminología. Granada, Comares, 2002; A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 2012). With the foundation of the cognitive terminological studies, in particular based on the theory of the Event-Domain Cognitive Model (ECM) by Wang (Modern Foreign Languages 28(1):17-26, 2005), along with the later proposal of the Environmental Event (EE) by the Faber group, understanding of special terms on atmospheric environment (AE) is enhanced. Before giving an explanation about construal of AE terms, I drew on relevant corpora and term extraction tools to retrieve the terms. Following analyses of the AE terms, exemplified by the term "air/空气", with the ECM and its specific variants, it is concluded that the three-level ECM is truly valuable for revealing cognitive structures and corresponding semantic content of the term, which is also informative helping to identify other potential terms acting not just as nouns but also as verbs and adjectives, etc.