Kernerman Dictionary News • Number 13 • June 2005
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Les Journées Allemandes des
Dictionnaires ‘Les
Journées allemandes des dictionnaires’ is a new lexicography conference
devoted to French dictionaries taking place in Klingenberg am Main, Germany.
It is organized by the Institut für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft of the Friedrich-Alexander
University of Erlangen-Nürenberg and
coordinated by Michaela Heinz. The first meeting was held on 25-27 June 2004 with the
theme Entre définition et citation – l’exemple and featured the
lexicographic example in contemporary French dictionaries as a multiform and
plurifunctional lexicographic unit which can be addressed to all types of
users for all different purposes in monolingual and bilingual dictionary
contexts. The event gathered some sixty participants, with papers
from Josette Rey-Debove, Bénédicte Gaillard, Jean Pruvost, Louis Mercier,
Pierre Rézeau, André Thibault, Michel Francar, Pierre Corbin, Alise Lehmann,
Michèle Fourment, Martine Courtier, Christiane Tetet, Peter Blumenthal, Franz
Josef Hausmann and Michaela Heinz. The proceedings will be published by Max
Niemeyer Verlag. The
second conference will be held on 7-9 July 2006 with the theme Dictionnaire
Maitre du Langue: lexicologie et didactique and be dedicated to the
memory of Josette Rey-Debove. It will highlight the didactic aspects of
French dictionaries – their representation, analysis and critique, and cover
monolingual, bilingual and semi-bilingul learner’s dictionaries, for native
French speakers and for learners of French as a foreign language, for
children, elementary French, chrestolexicography, the didactic value of
illustrations in dictionaries, dictionaries and grammar, and didactic aspects
in big dictionaries. http://www.ias.phil.uni-erlangen.de/klingenberg2006 Michaela Heinz, the
initiator of Les Journées allemandes des
dictionnaires, has a PhD in applied linguistics from the University of
Erlangen-Nurenberg. She collaborated on the editing of Nouvea Petit Robert
from 1988 to 1993, worked on behalf of l’Agence Universitaire de la
Francophonie in lexicographic projects in
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