Open Panel 1

Bilingual lexicography (1500–2000):
labelling, variation, and standardization

Contacts:

Elizaveta Zimont (elizaveta.zimont@univ-reims.fr)
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Nicola McLelland (nicola.mclelland@nottingham.ac.uk)
University of Nottingham

Keywords: bilingual dictionaries; language variation; language standardization; metalinguistic labelling; language ideologies

Panel description:

We invite contributions examining metalinguistic labelling related to questions of language variation and standardization in the history of bi- and multilingual lexicography (i.e. dictionaries of two or more vernacular languages, including regional and dialect dictionaries). Themes could include, but are not limited to:

• To what extent doe dictionaries/authors show awareness of language variation?
• What levels and parameters of language variation (regional, diastratic, diaphasic, diachronic, or other kinds) are taken into account, labelled or emphasized?
• Does metalinguistic labelling suggest a hierarchization of varieties and variants?
• To what extent do language ideologies and/or models of language variation coincide with or differ from those in the respective monolingual lexicographical traditions?
• Can we trace routes of transfer of particular ideologies and/or models of language variation (e.g. standard language ideology, concepts of register and style) from one lexicographical tradition to another?
• Does labelling imply any prerequisite knowledge on the part of dictionary users?

Proposals should be submitted online (https://hss-2025.sciencesconf.org) by 31 January 2025. Proposals should include:

• • • Name
    • Institutional affiliation (if any)
    • Email address
    • Abstract (max. 200 words, written in the language the paper will be presented in)
    • Panel/workshop name

Notification of acceptance will be made by 31 March 2025.

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes allowing for 10 minutes of discussion.

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Indicative references:

BRAY, Laurent. 2000. Matthias Kramer et la lexicographie du français en Allemagne au XVIII^e siècle: Avec une édition des textes métalexicographiques de Kramer. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.

CORMIER, Monique C. 2008. 'Usage labels in the Royal Dictionary (1699) by Abel Boyer', International Journal of Lexicography, 21: 153-71.

FERNÁNDEZ URDANETA, Heberto H. 2010. Dictionaries in Spanish and English from 1554 to 1740: Their Structure and Development. [Vertere. Monográficos de la Revista Hermēneus, 12.] Saragossa: Pórtico Librerías, S.A.

GLATIGNY, Michel (ed.) 1990. Les Marques d’usage dans les dictionnaires (XVII^e–XVIII^e siècles). [Lexique 9.] Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille.

FRĄCZEK, Agnieszka. 1999. Zur Geschichte der deutsch-polnischen und polnisch-deutschen Lexikographie (1772–1868). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

MCLELLAND, Nicola. 2024. 'Language authority, language ideologies, and eighteenth-century bilingual lexicographers of French, German and English: comparing Abel Boyer, Christian Ludwig, and Lewis Chambaud.' In Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French, edited by Janice Carruthers, Mairi-Louise McLaughlin and Olivia Walsh. 181–197. Oxford: OUP.

POLGUÈRE, Alain. 2020. 'Vers une approche systémique des marques d’usage.' In Marques de registre dans les dictionnaires bilingues, edited by Gueorgui Armianov. 3–32. Paris: Presses Inalco.

VOESTE, Anja. 2024. 'Beispiel und Regel im 18. Jahrhundert. Ein Blick in Christian Ludwigs zweisprachige Wörterbücher.' In Schreibarten im Umbruch: Stildiskurse im 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Eva Axer, Annika Hildebrandt, and Kathrin Wittler. [Beihefte der Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 23]. 143–159. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.

ZIMONT, Elizaveta. 2020. 'Variation diatopique dans la lexicographie français ↔ néerlandais aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles : réception et usage des marques diatopiques.' In Essays in the history of dialect studies. From ancient Greece to modern dialectology, edited by Raf Van Rooy. 48–67. Münster: Nodus Publikationen.