[Lexicog] popular lexicography

[neduchi at NETSCAPE.NET]

"popular lexicography" seems to be on the same level with "popular literature".
With regard to popular literature  "low art", and muddled stories are some of the words used to classify the subject: http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/onitsha/obieche.htm

That is what comes to mind when I hear "popular lexicography".
Maybe the same termmight apply if can extract the the "popular literature" equivalents within the lexicographic field.

Chinedu Uchechukwu
Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg.

"Ron Moe" <ron_moe at sil.org> wrote:

>There is also the concept of "folk definitions" of the sort that a parent
>would give a child when the child asks what a word means. "Mommy, what does
>'polygamy' mean?" "It's when a man is married to two women." Most (all?)
>languages have standardized ways of saying what a word means, whether to a
>child or another adult. "I think you are using that word incorrectly. I
>believe it means when a man has two or more wives." Or the style that
>preachers sometimes use: "Peace isn't the absence of strife. It is the
>serenity that allows you to maintain a sense of calm in the midst of the
>storm."
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>When I talk about the process of developing a dictionary, I distinguish
>between a "simple" dictionary and a "well-developed" dictionary. "With DDP
>we can now develop a simple dictionary in a matter of two or three months."
>But this is really different than an amateur attempt. The latter could be
>described as "amateur lexicography," "nonprofessional lexicography," or
>"unsophisticated."
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>Ron Moe
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>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".
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>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.
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>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.
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>Somewhere in between these two groups of problem, maybe, are difficulties
>with corpus development.
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