Modern forestry English: Macro- and microstructure of low register dictionary

Abstract

© Journal of Language and Literature. The emphasis of the paper is on the principle of compiling and the structure of the dictionary of Professional Language of Forestry (PLF). The Professional Language of Forestry is the language used by professional foresters; woodmen; gamekeepers, forest rangers; velveteens; wood-reeves. As a monolingual single-field maximizing print dictionary of low register it is designed not only to "cover as much of the vocabulary in a subject field as possible", or to provide translators and interpreters with the lexis used by professionals in oral communication, but first and foremost to help the user see foresters' world picture, the way the English Forestry mirrors the world. The main principles of compiling the Dictionary are: etymological, thematic, functional. The dictionary entry contains orthoepic information, grammatical information, bibliographic information, definition, phrases, cross-references, illustrative examples, collocations.