CONTENTS

PREFACE – Ilan Kernerman

INTRODUCTION Asian lexicography: past, present, and prospective – Tom McArthur

Traditionality and creativity in lexicography – Lu Gusun

Corpus linguistics and dictionary making in Korea – Sangsup Lee

The societal contexts of Sanskrit, English and Hindi thesauruses, and the multilingual possibilities of the computer age – Arvind Kumar

Dictionaries and their users in Chinese universities: with special reference to ESP learners – Li Lan

A corpus-based subject-specific glossary for computer science related texts – Jacqueline Lam Kam-mei

Interacting with the users: research findings in EFL dictionary user studies – Yukio Tono

Towards an active dictionary for writing academic essays – Noor Ida Ramli

Indonesian dictionaries and how students use them – Soekemi

Lexicography and lexicomputing in the Persian language – Ahmad Taherian

English lexicography in Japan: its history, innovations, and impact – Shigeru Yamada and Yuri Komuro

New dictionary needs of young learners of English in Asia – Ilan Kernerman

A radical change of direction: English lexicography in the fifteenth century – Reiko Takeda

POSTSCRIPT – Reinhard Hartmann