Although lexical theory and lexicographic practice are ordinarily close, in addition to deciding what should be included in a lexical entry and how definitions should be written, lexicographers must actually write the definitions and at the same time worry about such practical matters as how to keep their dictionary down to a manageable size Landau Commercial considerations aside, however, most lexicographers would argue that a good dictionary is the ultimate test of any theory of lexical semantics; they sometimes become impatient with criticisms from theorists who have never worked as lexicographers.
As one lexicographer has put it, "most of the words one has to deal with when working through the alphabet turn out to be more recalcitrant than those chosen as examples in works on semantic theory" Atkins The pressures from the publishers on the lexicographers to respect the deadlines and deliver, sometimes sacrificing the quality, have been the curse of many a lexicographic project. Can semantics and lexicography work hand in hand? One would be remiss not to mention the corpus revolution, which has had a major impact on lexicography, resulting in new approaches to lexicography, meaning, and the advent of Corpus Linguistics, which however is not a unified theoretical model so much as a bundle of methodological approaches.
In fact, a number of cognitive-linguistics approaches do not seem to shy away from the description of actual lexical meaning, as has been the case in most other linguistic paradigms as argued in Section 1 above. There is, then, some benefit for lexicography to be drawn from linguistic semantics, but clearly not all strains of semantic research render themselves to lexicographic application with equal facility.
Does linguistics benefit from lexicography? It is worth noting that linguistics not only has something to offer to lexicography, but also owes some debt to it.
Lexicography has had a hand in the rise of modern linguistics. Hudson makes the interesting point that lexicographic practice has implicitly shaped linguistic theory by influencing linguists as ordinary dictionary users. It appears that lexicography has also continued to remind linguists of the importance of meaning in language — that vital aspect that appears to have been neglected, or even negated, in some paradigms. This foundation is metalexicography, which arose to meet those many needs of lexicographers and dictionary users that were not being properly addressed by linguists.
Although undoubtedly new developments in linguistics bear some relevance to dictionary-making, metalexicography is less and less likely for the latter to be seen as just a part of linguistics, as it grows, branches out, and specializes.
It is perhaps unavoidable that a troubled relationship should end in divorce, but there is no reason this cannot be, after all, amicable divorce. Let us hope that lexicographers will keep an open mind to developments in linguistics, and that linguists will continue to exhibit a healthy fascination with dictionaries.
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