[Lexicog] popular lexicography

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, phil cash cash wrote:
> i am searching for a concept that might describe lexicography done by
> non-linguists/non-lexicographers.  my only thought at the moment is
> "popular lexicography".

I don't see any real problems with "popular lexicography," but
alternatives might be "innocent lexicography" or "naive lexicography," or,
in most cases under consideration, "English-modeled" or "English-based"
lexicography.  You can probably substitute a generic term like
superstratum for English.  A common element is probably the notion that a
more or less naive conception of some dominant language provides a
reasonable model of universal linguistic properties - grammar, glossing
metalanguage, etc.

Another common element, however, is the absence of some of the more
effective features of a lexicon, e.g., a lack of examples,
cross-references, register information, attibutions, etc.  People don't
always think of these if they start from scratch to re-invent the process,
and they are also a lot of work and might not be practical in some cases.

Somewhere in between these two groups of problem, maybe, are difficulties
with corpus development.



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