- Title
- Another isiXhosa Monolingual Dictionary: A Critical Analysis of the Shuters IsiChazi-magama SesiXhosa
- Creator
- Nkomo, Dion
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468095
- Identifier
- vital:77007
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5788/31-1-1658
- Description
- This article offers a critical analysis and evaluation of the Shuters IsiChazi-magama SesiXhosa, the second monolingual dictionary in the history of isiXhosa. The analysis draws theoretical and methodological insights from dictionary criticism as a domain of metalexicography and analyses the dictionary in view of existing dictionaries in the language, especially the first monolingual dictionary published under the auspices of the IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit (XNLU) a decade earlier. Concise paraphrases of meaning are identified as the major strength of this dictionary when compared to its XNLU predecessor. However, inconsistent provision of microstructural entries, an imbalanced macrostructure and a non-integrated front matter reduce the user-friendliness of the dictionary. Nevertheless, another dictionary in isiXhosa produced without the involvement of a National Lexicography Unit is welcome towards the intellectualisation of African languages.
- Format
- 27 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lexikos
- Relation
- Nkomo, D., 2021. Another isiXhosa Monolingual Dictionary: A Critical Analysis of the Shuters IsiChazi-magama SesiXhosa. Lexikos, 31, pp.440-467
- Relation
- Lexikos volume 31 number 1 440 467 2021 2224-0039
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Lexikos Statement (https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/about)
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education
Nkomo, Dion (Prof)
RU School of Languages and Literatures
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