Kinship terms (and related honorifics)

An issue in bilingual lexicography

Bibliographic Data

ID20309752
AuthorsSalikoko S Mufwene (0000-0002-8942-2626, University of Georgia, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume19
Issue1
Pages19-35
Publication date1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaper in Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-1251 • E-ISSN: 2224-3380
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08351818609389248
OpenAlexW2016166106
LanguageEN
References cited13

Most bilingual dictionaries are based on the controversial assumption that every basic, non‐technical, word or phrase of the ‘object language’ has a counterpart with more or less the same meaning and pattern of use in the ‘metalanguage’. Consequently, a lot of information has been omitted regarding formal and pragmatic constraints on the usages of many headwords in the ‘object language’, thus making bilingual dictionaries of limited help. Focusing on a sample of kinship vocabulary in Lingala, it is argued in this paper that bilingual dictionaries should differ from their monolingual counterparts essentially in that in the former, the ‘object language’ and the ‘metalanguage’ are different, whereas in the latter they are the same. Otherwise, they should provide comparable amounts of information in their entries

Kinship · Lexicography · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Metalanguage · Object (grammar) · Phrase · Sociology · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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