Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science / Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK)

Page 319-327
Author Stefan J. Schierholz
Title Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science / Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK)
Abstract The “WSK” is a German online dictionary series which will be published in print in 2019/2020. Each of the dictionaries is a terminological special field dictionary on the subject of “Linguistics and Communication Science”. The dictionaries will be partially translated to English, are intended for experts and semi-experts, and they will serve for comprehension of technical terms, information, and translation. Currently, 25 dictionaries are envisioned for the series, which will contain more than 50,000 lemmas. Eleven thousand of these dictionary articles have been published online since 2013. About 800 people are working on the project worldwide. In this paper, the structure of the whole project, the organization and management, and the work flow of article writing will be presented. By taking volume 1, “Grammar”, as a basis, the text compound structure, the function of the systematic introduction, and the article structure will be introduced.
Session TERMINOLOGY, TERMINOGRAPHY AND SPECIALISED LEXICOGRAPHY
Keywords special field lexicography, terminology, WSK, grammar, dictionary project
BibTex 
@InProceedings{ELX2018-026,
	author={Stefan J. Schierholz},
	title={Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science / Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK)},
	pages={319-327},
	booktitle={Proceedings of the XVIII EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography in Global Contexts},
	year={2018},
	month={jul},
	date={17-21},
	address={Ljubljana, Slovenia},
	editor={Jaka Čibej, Vojko Gorjanc, Iztok Kosem, Simon Krek},
	publisher={Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts},
	isbn={978-961-06-0097-8}, }
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