Macrostructure Front matter Body Appendices Jackson, Howard Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, p. 25.
Microstructure Entries and their Content Spelling Pronunciation Inflections Word Class (Grammatical Category) Senses Definitions Examples Usage Run-ons Etymology Jackson, Howard Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp
Planning a Dictionary (partial) Publisher / Editors: Who will the dictionary be for? Users? What will they use the dictionary for? Staff lexicographers’ tasks: selecting headwords (word list) designing entry content identifying sources of data determining who will write the entries
Compiling a Dictionary: Data Sources 1. Previous dictionaries 2. Citation files 3. Computer corpus BNC (100 million words) Bank of English (Cobuild) (bigger) concordance programs (free and cheap) KWIC lists Jackson, Howard Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp
Two Approaches to Evaluating a Dictionary 1. See what the dictionary says about itself and evaluate in terms of that—BLURB 2. Use a set of recognized criteria to evaluate. Jackson, Howard Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, p. 30.