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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Dictionaries #184503 04/26/2009 3:47 AM Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 QueenofRomania stranger QueenofRomania stranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 Until the 17th century, dictionaries were meaning based and not alphabetized. Is there such a meaning based dictionary available today? I did a quick google search and failed to find one. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dictionaries QueenofRomania #184504 04/26/2009 4:17 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh According to lexicology, there are two kinds of dictionaries: onomasiological (name-oriented, alphabetized lexicons) and semasiological (meaning-oriented, thesuaruses). Two good books on lexicology are: (1) Ladislav Zgusta (1971) Manual of lexicography (academic) and (2) Sidney Landau (2001) Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (non-academic). Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dictionaries zmjezhd #184505 04/26/2009 4:21 AM Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 QueenofRomania stranger QueenofRomania stranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 Thanks for your help. I'm getting ready to do a teacher inservice on meaning-based spelling and wanted to share alternatives to the dictionaries available in their classrooms. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dictionaries QueenofRomania #184506 04/26/2009 1:32 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh You're welcome. There's also two other books I just thought of: Jonathon Green, a British academic lexicographer, wrote Chasing The Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made in 1996, and Charles Read's (1986) Children's Creative Spelling. I haven't read the last book, yet, but I can vouch that others a great reads. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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