Abstract
This article is a personal account, from the point of view of one of its editors, of the publishing history of Lexicographica Series Maior. Keywords: lexicographica series maior, publishing history, metalexicography, lexicography
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No stagnation of lexicography is to be expected, but on the contrary further flourishing
At a preliminary meeting in Exeter, two or three of the conference participants who later became editors decided that the time was ripe for an international book series specialising in lexicography, and the German publisher Niemeyer at the same time agreed to take this on, together with the associated periodical Lexicographica
We knew that in terms of sales figures it would be an uphill struggle, we were keen from the beginning (a) to develop an international focus on dictionary research by encouraging a scholarly approach to outstanding issues, (b) to cultivate interdisciplinary contacts with many fields, from linguistics and cultural history to education and information technology, and — perhaps less successfully until very recently — (c) to promote interlingual topics such as pedagogical lexicography and translation
Summary
We have had an editorial team of seven 'leaders' in the field, currently consisting of Ladislav Zgusta (USA), Sture Allén (Sweden), Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann and Ulrich Heid (Germany), Pierre Corbin (France) and myself (U.K.), who rotate the executive editorship for one year at a time (the current calendar year being my own third turn). We knew that in terms of sales figures it would be an uphill struggle, we were keen from the beginning (a) to develop an international focus on dictionary research by encouraging a scholarly approach to outstanding issues, (b) to cultivate interdisciplinary contacts with many fields, from linguistics and cultural history to education and information technology, and — perhaps less successfully until very recently — (c) to promote interlingual topics such as pedagogical lexicography and translation All of this needed agreement among the editors and with the publisher on proper procedures for attracting, assessing, approving, producing and publicising the books we were to include in the series. The authors and editors of submitted manuscripts and published volumes have included both recognised authorities (like Herbert Ernst Wiegand, who had been instrumental originally in getting both the book series and the yearbook series Lexicographica off the ground) and relative newcomers, e.g. authors of recent research dissertations, such as Ulrike Rothe's (2001) comparative study of the English and French 'dictionary scenes', and of the way(s) in which they may condition different lexicographic practices
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