Parman Singh

Hindi Lexicography: Past, Present, and Future

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Produktbeschreibung

The research reported in the monograph presents a comprehensive historical account of Hindi lexicography along with the development of Hindi as a standard language from the 19th century. Beginning the compilation of dictionaries under the influence of Sanskrit tradition, Hindi lexicography makes a remarkable achievement with the monolingual dictionary of Hindi Shabd Sagar, covers a wide range of bilingual dictionaries with Hindi as a source or target language, and the compilation of dictionaries for specific categories of users and domains of usage. The extensive work for the standardization and promotion of Hindi constitutes a major attempt in the compilation of glossaries of scientific and technical terms for various subjects in Humanities and Sciences including the administrative terminology. Finally the monograph presents a contemporary view of Hindi lexicography with the use of computer and heralds the era of electronic dictionary and the field of computational lexicography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9783659429880
• ISBN-10: 3659429880
• Artikelnr.: 62749961

Autorenporträt

M.A. in English and M.A. in Linguistics, holds a Ph.D degree in Lexicography from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Worked as a linguist in the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Working on Metaphoric Competence in Cognitive Linguistic Theory as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the DST, Government of India, placed at CIIL, Mysore.