metalexicography
English
Etymology
meta- + lexicography
Noun
metalexicography (uncountable)
- (linguistics, lexicography) The study of lexicography
- 1986, Robert Ilson, Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession, page 101:
- Metalexicography can be divided into five fields of interest; the first is lexicographic theory […]
- 1988, Ladislav Zgusta et al., Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography of the Theory of Lexicography, page 7:
- This is a bibliography of works that deal with the theory, methods, and procedures of lexicography (in short, with what is called in French and German metalexicography)
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Derived terms
Derived terms
- metalexicographer
- metalexicographical
- metalexicographically
Related terms
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- metadictionary
- metalanguage
- metalexicon
- metalinguistics
- terminography
Translations
study of lexicography in the abstract
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