Preserving endangered knowledge in a dictionary: The case of Ket

Bibliographic Details
Parent link:Anthropological Linguistic
Vol. 61, iss. 1.— 2019.— [P. 103-113]
Main Author: Kotorova E. G. Elizaveta Georgievna
Corporate Author: Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет Школа базовой инженерной подготовки Отделение иностранных языков
Other Authors: Nefedov A. V. Andrey Viktorovich
Summary:Title screen
Describing culture-specific vocabulary is a rather challenging part of lexicographic work, especially in the case of languages considered to be endangered. As a rule, such languages are understudied and not sufficiently documented, which greatly complicates the presentation of ethnocultural realia in a dictionary. We describe the main problems related to presenting ethnocultural material encountered in the course of making the Comprehensive Dictionary of Ket, a highly endangered Yeniseian language. They include cultural differences in categorization of extralinguistic reality, the presentation of ethnocultural information in a dictionary entry, and the loss of ethnocultural knowledge in the language community.
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1353/anl.2019.0012
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=662138