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February 3, 2012
The Board of AFRILEX (i.e. the African Association for Lexicography), in conjunction with the Bureau of the WAT, 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. Please visit:
January 21, 2012
Did you know that Wikipedia has a List of Lexicographers?
January 21, 2012
AFRILEX 2012 will be held in Pretoria, South Africa from 3-5 July 2012. There will be a PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP on LSP Lexicography.
January 21, 2012
The conference will be held from 25th – 28th July, 2012, and it is organised by the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and the Department of Indo-European Studies of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
The cultural programme of the conference includes:
• Guided tour of the manuscript section of the Thuringian university and state library
• Dinner with programme in the historical Rosensäle (meaning “Rosenhalls”)
• Excursion to Weimar, the town of the German classical period, or to Leipzig, place of residence of the Saxonian Academy (28th July)
January 20, 2012
The Center for Research in Terminology and Translation (CRTT) of the University of Lyon is organizing an international conference on neology in specialized languages which will take place in Lyon on 2-3 July 2012. The aim of the conference is to bring together linguists interested in discussing the following aspects of neology in specialized communication:
the methods and tools which are used to detect new terms and concepts,
the importance of written and oral corpora to detect new terms,
the methods and tools which are used to measure and evaluate the implantation of new terms in a specialized language and their circulation to other specialized languages,
the influence of language policies on the implantation and circulation of neologisms,
the diachronic evolution of neologisms,
the treatment of neologisms by general-purpose and specialized dictionaries.
January 20, 2012
The Batumi II International Symposium in Lexicography will be held in Batumi, Georgia from 18 May until 20 May 2012. See: LinguistList.
AFRILEX 2012 will be held in Pretoria, South Africa from 3-5 July 2012. There will be a PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP on LSP Lexicography.
The conference will be held from 25th – 28th July, 2012, and it is organised by the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and the Department of Indo-European Studies of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
The cultural programme of the conference includes:
• Guided tour of the manuscript section of the Thuringian university and state library
• Dinner with programme in the historical Rosensäle (meaning “Rosenhalls”)
• Excursion to Weimar, the town of the German classical period, or to Leipzig, place of residence of the Saxonian Academy (28th July)
The Center for Research in Terminology and Translation (CRTT) of the University of Lyon is organizing an international conference on neology in specialized languages which will take place in Lyon on 2-3 July 2012. The aim of the conference is to bring together linguists interested in discussing the following aspects of neology in specialized communication:
the methods and tools which are used to detect new terms and concepts,
the importance of written and oral corpora to detect new terms,
the methods and tools which are used to measure and evaluate the implantation of new terms in a specialized language and their circulation to other specialized languages,
the influence of language policies on the implantation and circulation of neologisms,
the diachronic evolution of neologisms,
the treatment of neologisms by general-purpose and specialized dictionaries.
The Batumi II International Symposium in Lexicography will be held in Batumi, Georgia from 18 May until 20 May 2012. See: LinguistList.
The third international New Approaches in English Historical Lexis Symposium (HEL-LEX3) will be held in Southern Finland at the Tvärminne Zoological Station from March 7-10, 2012.
Plenarists
Professor Lynda Mugglestone (Pembroke college, Oxford),
Dr Philip Durkin, Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press,
Professor Michael Adams (University of Indiana, Bloomington).
Papers covering any aspect of English historical lexicography and lexicology, as well as subjects which involve other languages by way of a comparative study are welcome. Please submit an abstract of not more than 1 A4 page to hellex-2012@helsinki.fi not later than Sept 30, 2011.
The HEL-LEX organising committee is anxious to see that a proceedings volume will appear in good time after the conference. To this end, please keep in mind that a call for submission will allow only about three months after the conference to complete papers. As in the past, we will be asking Cascadilla press to do the proceedings, so that, pending their agreement, we advise that you consult their website about citation and presentation style, even at this early stage.
Department für Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business organizes the Fourth WU Symposium on International Business Communication under the title Dictionaries and beyond. The symposium will be held from April 6-8 2011 in Vienna. More on the symposium web site.
Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies, organizes the second Elex conference: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: new applications for new users (eLEX2011). The conference aims to build on the first conference, held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), and explore innovative developments in the field of electronic lexicography. The conference will be held in Bled (Slovenia) from 10th-12th November 2011. More on the conference web site.
The next Lexicom Workshop will be held in St Petersburg, Russia, from 14-18 June 2011.