AFRILEX

7^th International Conference
Programme

Dates:	8-10 July 2002
Hosts:	Dictionary Unit for South African English, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Venue:	Eden Grove, Rhodes University
Theme:	Culture and Dictionaries

Monday 8 July 2002
08:30 – 09:20	Tea and Registration
09:20 – 09:35	Welcome – Chairperson of Afrilex (D.J. Prinsloo)
	OFFICIAL OPENING
	Word from the Local Conference Organiser (K. Kavanagh)
Keynote Address 1
09:35 – 10:30	Henning Bergenholtz (Denmark) Towards a User-oriented Understanding of Descriptive, Proscriptive and Prescriptive Lexicography
10:35 – 11:00	Tea
Parallel Sessions
11:00 – 11:25	Godfrey Baile MAREME Prejudice and Reality in a Setswana Monolingual Dictionary – The Systematic and Deliberate Biasing of Cultural Issues	Rufus H. GOUWS Using a Frame Structure to Accommodate Cultural Data
11:30 – 11:55	Rachélle GAUTON Bilingual Zulu Dictionaries and the Translation of Culture	M.P. Mogodi Layered Definitions: A Northern Sotho Case Study
12:00 – 12:25	P.A. MAVOUNGOU, T. AFANE OTSAGA & G.-R. MIHINDOU Dictionaries Compiled with French and the Reproduction of the Gabonese Cultures	Kathryn KAVANAGH, Philisiwe MANYISA, Disebo MOETI & Neo MPALAMI Work in Progress: First Steps in Using a Bilingual Dictionary Framework
12:30 – 12:55	Pieter N. VAN DER WESTHUIZEN A Southern African Lexicographer's Working Definition of the Term Culture	Jacques A.J. VAN KEYMEULEN Making a Dictionary of an Oral Tradition
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
	Parallel Sessions	Special Session 1: Fundraising for Dictionary Publishing
14:00 – 14:25	Peter A. SCHMITT Culture-specific Concepts in Technical Dictionaries	Dirk J. VAN SCHALKWYK Financing of the National Lexicography Units (NLUs) in a New Lexicographic Dispensation
14:30 – 14:55	Elsabé TALJARD & Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER Semi-Automatic Term Extraction for the African Languages, with special reference to Northern Sotho	Jill WOLVAARDT Dictionaries, A Cultural Investment? Some Thoughts on Fundraising for Dictionary Projects
15:00 – 15:25	Salmina NONG The Lexicographic Treatment of Loan Words in Northern Sotho	Mariëtta ALBERTS Funding for Technical Dictionaries
15:30 – 15:55	Linda VAN HUYSSTEEN The Value of Culture in the Development of Medical Corpora in Zulu	ROUND TABLE: Funding the Publication of Dictionaries – Action Plan
16:00 – 16:30	Tea
16:30 – 17:45	Visit to The Dictionary Unit for South African English (DSAE)
18:00	Official Welcome by the Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University (Dr. D. Woods)
	Vice-Chancellor's Cocktail Party (Venue: Albany History Museum)
Tuesday 9 July 2002
Keynote Address 2
09:00 – 09:55	A.C. NKABINDE (South Africa) Cultural Implications on Lexicography
10:00 – 10:30	Tea
Parallel Sessions
10:30 – 10:55	L.E. MPHASHA Cultural Relativism in Dictionaries: Is this the Right Direction?	Penny SILVA The OED as Cultural Icon
11:00 – 11:25	Emmanuel CHABATA Language Development in a Multilingual Society	Gregory JAMES & Bronson SO Ming Cheung Culture and a Dictionary: Evidence from the First European Lexicographical Work in China
11:30 – 11:55	Emmanuel CHABATA & Webster MAVHU Torn Between Calling a Spade a Spade and Being Euphemistic: The Dilemma of a Lexicographer Defining Offensive Headwords in Shona Monolingual Lexicography	Ron MOE Compiling Dictionaries Using Semantic Domains
12:00 – 12:25	Diapo N. LEKGANYANE On Corpora and the Process of Selecting High Function Words and Their Treatment in Currently Available Dictionaries for Sepedi	P.S. MALEBE & Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER From Corpus Data to the First isiNdebele Dictionaries
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
Parallel Sessions
13:30 – 13:55	Esau MANGOYA Divergent Approaches to Corpus Processing: The Need for Standardisation	V.M. MOJELA The Etymological Aspects of the Idiomatic and Proverbial Expressions in the Lexicographic Development of Sesotho sa Leboa – A Semantic Analysis
14:00 – 14:25	Vezumuzi kaDayisa NDLOVU A Corpus-based Approach to Terminography: An Analysis and Evaluation of the ALRI Corpora	Matete MADIBA, Lorna MPHAHLELE & Matlakala KGANYAGO Capturing Cultural Glossaries: A Case Study Presentation of N. Sotho Cooking Terms
14:30 – 15:10	GENERAL MEETING
15:15 – 15:30	Tea
15:30 – 17:30	Egazini Tour
18:30	PHAROS Conference Dinner
Wednesday 10 July 2002
Keynote Address 3
09:00 – 09:55	Arvi HURSKAINEN (Finland) New Advances in Corpus-based Lexicography
10:00 – 10:30	Tea
	Parallel Sessions	Special Session 2: Morphological Analysers for the Bantu Languages (A joint session of AFRILEX and the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Language and Speech Technology Development of ALASA http://www.alasa.org.za/sig.)
10:30 – 10:55	Karen HENDRIKS The Treatment of Culture-Specific Lexical Items in Bilingual Dictionaries	Sonja E. BOSCH & Laurette PRETORIUS Using Finite-State Computational Morphology to Enhance a Machine-Readable Lexicon
11:00 – 11:25	Advice VIRIRI Missionary Influence on Shona Lexicography, with Special Reference to Father Hannan’s Problem of Translation	Mandlenkosi MAPHOSA Word Division and Orthography as Some of the Factors Posing Challenges in the Development of the Ndebele Grammatical Parser
11:30 – 11:55	Nomalanga MPOFU Cultural Aspects in the Shona Monolingual Dictionary: Duramazwi Guru reChiShona	Daniel RIDINGS & Webster MAVHU Problems and Challenges Encountered when Developing a Morphological Parser for the Shona Language
12:00 – 12:25	Langa KHUMALO History, Language Contact and Lexical Change: A Lexicography/Terminography Interface in Zimbabwean Ndebele	Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER First Steps in the Finite-State Morphological Analysis of Northern Sotho
12:30 – 12:55	D.J. PRINSLOO The Lemmatization of Copulatives in Northern Sotho	Justus C. ROUX & Sonja E. BOSCH Human Language Technologies and the National Lexicography Units & ROUND TABLE
13:00 – 13:10	CLOSURE
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch

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