What actually is specialised lexicography?

What is it about?

LSP lexicography covers many different subject fields and is concerned with developing principles and guidelines that help lexicographers design, evaluate, make and use lexicographical tools that fulfil specific types of need of specific types of user in specific types of situation in the real world concerning particular subject fields and their LSP. LSP lexicography is based on lexicographical functions, such as communicative and cognitive functions, and the data that dictionaries contain should be specifically adapted to user needs and competences through user profiling, because user situations arise in the extra-lexicographical environment. Finally, a general typology of specialized dictionaries based on lexicographical functions, dictionary types and user types is suggested.

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Why is it important?

This paper discusses the object of LSP lexicography, which is directly related to the objective of LSP lexicography, which is to develop principles and guidelines that help lexicographers design, evaluate, make and use lexicographical tools that fulfil specific types of need of specific types of user in specific types of situation in the real world concerning particular subject fields and their LSP. The paper argues that, when planning, making, examining and describing specialized dictionaries, lexicographers should relate the selection, distribution and presentation of data to the objective of LSP lexicography.

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