The 25th International AFRILEX Conference: Virtual Presentations
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Reference skills or human-centered design: towards a new lexicographical culture
Q & A: 29 June from 10:15 ─ 10:30
Sven Tarp
st@cc.au.dk
Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University, South Africa;
Centre for Lexicographical Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China; Centre for Lexicography, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Rufus H. Gouws
rhg@sun.ac.za
Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
A critical analysis of cross-referencing in electronic dictionaries
Q & A: 29 June from 10:30 ─ 10:45
Neill van Graan
Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Danie J. Prinsloo
Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
How great is thy dictionary: cultural articles in The Greater Dictionary of (isi)Xhosa
Q & A: 29 June from 10:45 ─ 11:00
Zikho Dana
g12d1998@campus.ru.ac.za; zikhodana@gmail.com
School of Languages & Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
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Wanga Gambushe
School of Languages & Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
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Bulelwa Nosilela
School of Languages and Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University. Makhanda, South Africa
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Dion Nkomo
School of Languages & Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
A case for a specialised Ndebele legal terms dictionary
Q & A: 29 June from 11:00 ─ 11:15
Eventhough Ndlovu
Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa
An Application of Keiran J. Dunne's concept of defective terminology to the analysis of COVID-19 terminologies in Chichewa
Q & A: 29 June from 11:15 ─ 11:30
Evans Lwara
Linguistics and African Languages Section, Domasi College of Education, Zomba, Malawi
Towards lexicographic resources on African traditional food science with specific reference to Ndebele culinary traditions
Q & A: 29 June from 11:30 ─ 11:45
Makhosi Mahlangu
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Lupane State University, Lupane, Zimbabwe
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Dion Nkomo
School of Languages & Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
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Delta M. Sivalo
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Lupane State University, Lupane, Zimbabwe
Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele at twenty: reflections on its role and the future of Zimbabwean lexicography
Q & A: 29 June from 11:45 ─ 12:00
Dion Nkomo
School of Languages & Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
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Eventhough Ndlovu
Department of Languages, Literature & Culture, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
From concept to design: an electronic school dictionary
Q & A: 29 June from 13:00 ─ 13:15
Lorna Hiles Morris
Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Some suggestions to improve dictionaries integrated into English learning apps
Q & A: 29 June from 13:15 ─ 13:30
Sven Tarp
st@cc.au.dk
Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University, South Africa;
Centre for Lexicographical Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China; Centre for Lexicography, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Fang Huang
huangfang@gdufs.edu.cn
Centre for Lexicographical Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
Are OALD and LDOCE online (comparably) useful? A case of English articles
Q & A: 29 June from 13:30 ─ 13:45
Anna Dziemianko
danna@amu.edu.pl
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Towards (re)defining lexicography – a communicative perspective
Q & A: 29 June from 13:45 ─ 14:00
Herman L. Beyer
Department of Humanities and Arts, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
The writing process of encyclopedic definitions for a frame-based specialized dictionary: findings and perspectives from the analysis of Dicionário Olímpico
Q & A: 29 June from 14:00 ─ 14:15
Bruna Da Silva
Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, UNISINOS University, São Leopoldo, Brazil & Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Ana Luiza Vianna
Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, UNISINOS University, São Leopoldo, Brazil
Sandra De Oliveira
Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, UNISINOS University, São Leopoldo, Brazil
Rove Chishman
Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, UNISINOS University, São Leopoldo, Brazil
Gilles-Maurice De Schryver
gillesmaurice.deschryver@ugent.be
Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Selection and treatment of negative morphemes in Sepedi dictionaries
Q & A: 30 June from 10:15 ─ 10:30
Danie J. Prinsloo
Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Dictionary Characteristics, Functionality and Usability: An Analysis of Two Minority Language Dictionaries of Gabon
Q & A: 30 June from 10:30 ─ 10:45
H Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza
Department of Language Education, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
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Blanche Nyngone Assam
Department of Foreign Languages, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Paul A. Mavoungou
Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon; Department of Language Education, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Development of a digital dictionary for NÇ€uu
Q & A: 30 June from 10:45 ─ 11:00
Kerry Jones
African Tongue, Professional Linguistics Consultancy, Cape Town, South Africa; Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa; General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Bonny Sands
Department of English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, USA
Menno van Zaanen
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Embracing the new to stay faithful to the old: Using smart lexicography to enable preservation of ǀXam in its archival form, while reflecting modern analysis of its phoneme inventory
Q & A: 30 June from 11:00 ─ 11:15
Menán du Plessis
Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Lexicographical treatment of -ic/-ical adjectives: critical comments and suggestions for improvement
Q & A: 30 June from 11:15 ─ 11:30
Sven Tarp
st@cc.au.dk
Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University, South Africa;
Centre for Lexicographical Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China; Centre for Lexicography, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Ma Lidong
mark2587@126.com
Centre for Lexicographical Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
The treatment of lexical gaps in isiZulu – English dictionaries
Q & A: 30 June from 11:30 ─ 11:45
Mpume Zondi
Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Danie J. Prinsloo
Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Lexicographic perspectives for the revitalization of endangered languages of Gabon
Q & A: 30 June from 11:45 ─ 12:00
H Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza
Department of Language Education, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Virginie Ompoussa
Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon
Paul A. Mavoungou
Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon; Department of Language Education, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
The role lexicographers can play in helping to vanquish insensitivity, brutality, othering, and wilful ignorance
Q & A: 30 June from 13:00 ─ 13:15
W(h)AT to do about Kaaps? The inclusion of Cape Afrikaans in the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal
Q & A: 30 June from 13:15 ─ 13:30
Gerda Odendaal
Bureau of the WAT, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.