Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography is directed at experts in the field of practical and theoretical lexicography in South Africa, applying the general theory of lexicography to the South African lexicographic environment.

The authors of this book are leaders in the field of South African lexicography and active participants in the international lexicographic arena, publishing regularly in national and international journals and giving papers at international conferences and workshops. Both are NRF-rated researchers, founder members and former presidents of AFRILEX, the African Association for Lexicography, and both have played a major role as PanSALB consultants in the training of the staff members and in guiding the South African National Lexicography Units.

About the authors:

Rufus Gouws is Professor and co-ordinator of the Programme for Lexicography in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published extensively in the field of theoretical lexicography. For his book Leksikografie he received the Linguistic Society of Southern Africa’s Award for Linguistics. As practical lexicographer he co-edited a number of Afrikaans dictionaries, including the authoritative HAT (the Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal). He currently is an editor of the comprehensive Wörterbuch zur Lexikographie und Wörterbuchforschung/Dictionary of Lexicography and Dictionary Research and of the international encyclopaedia of lexicography: Dictionaries. An international encyclopedia of lexicography. At the University of Stellenbosch he is a recipient of the Rector’s Award for Excellence in Research.

Danie Prinsloo is Professor in and Head of the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria and Chair of Research of the Faculty of Humanities. He is well known nationally and internationally for his ground-breaking research in the field of African language lexicography. Danie is the author and co-author of ninety articles on especially African Language lexicography and a number of Northern Sotho dictionaries. He started the corpus revolution in Africa a decade and a half ago and plays a major role in the development of corpus lexicography and in the design of lexicographic tools such as the Rulers and Block Systems for the balancing of alphabetical categories. He has been awarded thrice a medal for Exceptional Performer of the University of Pretoria.

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