Original scientific paper
One Hundred Years of English-Croatian Lexicography (Historical perspective and current needs)
Maja Bratanić
Abstract
The paper gives a historical survey of Englsh-Croatian/Croatian-English general (nontechnical) lexicography. The growth and development of English studies in Croatia were accompanied, from the late forties onwards, by a rather steady flow of dictionaries of the above language pair, marked by constantly increasing attempts to attain greater comprehensiveness and methodological sophisticatíon.
However, in spite of the expanding market and rapidly developing computer technology, the past decade has witnessed a noticeable halt in the English-Croatian lexicographic production, while, at the
same time, various specialized technical dictionaries are produced to meet the demands of the growing audience much more promptly.
The lack of the necessary bilingual lexicographic tools becomes even more striking in the light of the booming developments in the field of monolingual English (particularly British) dictionary industry. The author tries to account for such a situation and undertakes to sort out the priorities among the English-Croatian lexicographic desiderata.
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120279
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Publication date:
15.9.1997.
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