AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY
Programme
20th International Conference
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus
Monday 6 July 2015
Pre-conference workshop
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Unite Building
Electronic Lexicography
Presenter: Annette Klosa
Institute for German Language, Mannheim, Germany
Session 1: 09:00 – 10:25
10:30 –
10:55
Tea
Venue: Unite Building
Session 2: 11:00 – 11:40
Session 3: 11:45 – 12:25
12:30 –
13:25
Lunch
Venue: Unite Building Dining Area
Session 4: 13:30 – 14:25
Session 5: 14:30 – 15:25
18:00 – Cocktail Party
Venue: Unite Building Dining Area
Tuesday 7 July 2015
08:30 –
09:10
09:15 –
09:30
Registration
Venue: Unite Building
Official Opening
Victor Mojela – President of Afrilex
A word of welcome
Professor Renuka Vithal
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Teaching & Learning, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Keynote Address 1: Venue: Unite Building
Venue: Room 4
09:30 –
10:25
Venue: Room 4
Keynote
Michael Rundell, Macmillan, United Kingdom
Moving from print to digital: implications for dictionary policy and
lexicographic conventions
10:30 –
10:55
Tea
Unite Building
Parallel Sessions
11:00 –
11:25
11:30 –
11:55
Venue: Room 4
Venue: Room 5
Who are the target users of
monolingual learners'
dictionaries?
Being Inconsistent:
Loanwords Spelling in
Northern Sotho Dictionaries
Gouws, R.H.
Chokoe, S.
The Inclusion of Collocations in
Dictionaries of African
Languages: A Case of Northern
Sotho
Preparing an online EnglishSpanish dictionary of business
communication
Tarp, S.
Mashamaite, K. J. & Mphahlele, M. L.
12:00 –
12:25
12:30 –
12:55
The Impact of Culture
Reproduction in Dictionaries
Evaluation of the performance of on French Language
Acquisition: A Case Study at
a machine learning lemmatiser
the University of the Western
for isiXhosa
Mzamo, L., Helberg, A. S. J. & Bosch, Cape
S. E.
Assam, B. Nyangone
Enhancement of the African
Wordnets: additional language
resources and tools
To what extent do Learners’
dictionaries use defining
vocabularies for their
examples?
Griesel, M. & Bosch, S. E.
Hiles, L.
13:00 –
13:55
Lunch
Venue: Unite Building Dining Area
Parallel Sessions
Venue: Room 4
14:00 –
14:25
14:30 –
14:55
Venue: Room 5
The treatment of academic
14:00- 14:55
action verbs in English advanced Special session:
learner’s dictionaries
Beyer, H. L. & Izaks, J.
Letting the new HAT out of the
The development of indigenous bag - a discussion of the new
languages in South Africa
and completely revised HAT
through terminology
Luther, J., Pheiffer, F. & Gouws, R.
development and dictionary
H.
making: A case study of IsiZulu
Language at University of
KwaZulu-Natal
Nkontwana, S.
15:00 –
15:25
Terminology Development
Principles: Towards a Principled
Approach to UKZN isiZulu
Technical Terms
Mngadi, K.
15:30 –
15:55
A learner’s dictionary for foreign
students learning Afrikaans in a
university context
15:00 -15:55
Special session:
Adaptation of A Dictionary of
South African English on
Historical Principles for
electronic platforms
Van Niekerk, T
Claasen, D.
16:00 –
17:00
Annual General Meeting
18:00
Conference Reception
Venue: Town Hall
Wednesday 8 July 2015
Keynote Address 2: Venue: G01 Frans du Toit Building
Venue: Room 4
09:00 –
Keynote
09:55
Mbulungeni Madiba, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Between a rock and a hard place: A critical reflection
on the intellectualisation of African languages
10:00 –
10:25
Tea
Venue: Unite Building
Parallel Sessions
10:30 –
10:55
Venue: Room 4
Venue: Room 5
The consultation potential of
lemma candidates for a bilingual
dictionary of closely related
languages
10:30- 12:25
Beyer, H. L.
11:00 –
11:25
Equivalent relations and their
implications for the database of
an electronic bilingual sign
language dictionary
Special session
Taking hands to build a
multilingual open education
resource term bank for Higher
Education
Carstens, A., Madiba, M. & Taljard,
E.
Fourie-Blair, H.
11:30 –
11:55
From common conversations
around the Oxford Bilingual
School Dictionary: IsiXhosaEnglish to constructive dictionary
criticism
Nkomo, D.
12:00 –
12:25
To Include or Not: Lexicographic
Recording of Neologisms in the
Digital Era
Yongwei, G.
12:30 –
13:25
Lunch
Venue: Unite Building Dining Area
Parallel Sessions
13.30 –
13.55
Venue: Room 4
Venue: Room 5
Gender Sensitivity in
Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele
The Use of LSP Dictionaries on
Mobile Phones in Higher
Education
Sayi, S.
Van der Merwe, M.
14:00 –
14:25
14:30 –
14:55
15:00 –
15:25
15:30 16:00
Cross-referencing in
Term extraction for an isiZulu
Isichazamazwi Sezomculo (ISM) linguistic terms dictionary using
(2006)
a corpus linguistic method
Ndlovu, E. and Bhebhe, M
Khumalo, L.
From Idioticon to ANNA: The role
of Stellenbosch University in the
development of Afrikaans
lexicography
Linking the fulfilment of
translational needs to
lexicographical theory in the
context of UI translation
Odendaal, B. G.
Du Plessis, A. & Swart, M.
Reflections on talking
dictionaries in Zimbabwe’s
indigenous languages: Can we
really talk?
An analysis of defining
principles with special
reference to Isichazamazwi
SesiNdebele (ISN) definitions
Nkomo, D. and Chabata, E.
Ndlovu, E.
Tea
Venue: Unite Building
16:00-
Towards an inclusive dictionary:
Centre for Political and Related
16:25
bridging the gap between
standard and non-standard
varieties of Setswana
Mareme, G. B. & Lekopanye, K. N.
Terminology in Southern
African Languages (CEPTSA)
– Translating and Explanatory
Dictionaries
Alberts, M.
16:30 –
17:00
A critical analysis of multilingual
dictionaries
Prinsloo, D. J.
African Glossonyms:
Complexity and Practices in
African Dictionaries
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, H. S.
17:00
Closure
19:00
Conference Dinner
Unite Building Dining Area
Thursday 9 July 2015
Post-conference excursion
The Inanda Heritage Route