| Abstract: |
The status of specialised lexicography is examined: the roles of publishers of dictionaries, and of terminological data banks are investigated. The impact of the information explosion, the vearied needs of users for multilingual terminology, the problems of interlingual transfer and the development of new data base technology and lexicographical working methods are considered. A British Linguistic Data Bank is described, which represents the first model of its kind based on substantial market research. This LDB will serve many different user groups, providing varied services for technical writers, translators, publishers, information scientists and standardization agencies. The nature and role of specialised lexicography will be markedly affected by such developments, for which the British LDB is taken as a model. |