Abstract
Wiegand's metalexicography is used to establish the purposes, functions and nature of a multilingual, multicultural, and explanatory music education dictionary for South Africa. Specific types of dictionaries have specific purposes. Special-field dictionaries should fulfil the purpose of conveying information on knowledge in special fields. They should also solve communication conflicts. The genuine purposes of special-field dictionaries, according to Wiegand, are to convey either linguistic information on terms, or encyclopedic information, or both. The needs of users should be taken into account when determining the functions of a dictionary. When the functions of a dictionary containing music terms from South Africa is considered, social factors in South African music education also have to be taken into account. The planned dictionary will have a linguistic and a communicative function. It will also have a cognitive and scientific function, fulfilling an educational need. With regard to the nature of the planned dictionary, it will have to contain elements of different types of dictionaries, such as explanatory dictionaries, translation dictionaries, and learner's dictionaries. A thematic arrangement will be followed, supplemented by an alphabetical index. Two versions of the dictionary will have to be published, namely, a more scholarly version for specialists, with more types of information, as well as a more popular version for nonspecialists. <b>Keywords:</b> multicultural dictionary; multilingual dictionary; explanatory dictionary; special-field dictionary; wiegand; purposes of dictionaries; functions of dictionaries; encyclopedic information; linguistic information; dictionary use; protocols; learner's lexicography
Highlights
Wiegand's metalexicography is used to establish the purposes, functions and nature of a multilingual, multicultural, and explanatory music education dictionary for South Africa
The purposes of the planned dictionary. Those aspects of Wiegand's metalexicography which can help lexicographers establish the most important purposes and functions of dictionaries are mainly drawn from the constituent theories which deal with research into dictionary use, and the general section of the general theory of dictionaries
This is because some special-field dictionaries tend to give information which is of a more linguistic nature, while others tend to give encyclopedic information, i.e. of an extralinguistic nature
Summary
Those aspects of Wiegand's metalexicography which can help lexicographers establish the most important purposes and functions of dictionaries are mainly drawn from the constituent theories which deal with research into dictionary use, and the general section of the general theory of dictionaries.
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