PERIODS OF

PRACTICAL
LEXICOGRAP
HY
1. PRE- DICTIONARY
PERIOD
•To explain words
which are difficult to
understand.
 3 terminologies:
1. Gloss/Glosses – “Greek” Tounge/ Language. It is a
series of Verbal interpretations of a text.

2. Glossaries – collection of glosses pertained to

one book or author.
3. Vocabularias – collection of words for
educational purposes.
2. PERIOD OF EARLY
DICTIONARIES
•Its function is to study
literary languages which
differ now with peoples from
spoken speech.
1. Foreign Vocabulary

2. Translated Dictionaries
3. PERIOD OF DEVELOPED
LEXICOGRAPHY
•The main function is to
enhanced social linguistic
culture through
describing and
•Dictionaries of related languages
- Arabic, Chinese, Dutch dictionaries.
•Reverse dictionaries
– one look reverse dictionaries
•Dictionaries of frequent words
– Russian, Swedish, Persian dictionaries
•Dictionaries of writers
– Oxford, Merriam Dictionaries.