Member News Spring 2021

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Lynne Murphy has just started work as the editor of Dictionaries. (See her article elsewhere in this issue on what this means to her.) She will welcome any submissions, inquiries, or suggestions regarding the journal; email lynnem@sussex.ac.uk.  Kory Stamper plays a prominent role in Netflix's new series History of Swear Words. Each episode of the series, hosted by Nicholas Cage, features Stamper and other expert guests discussing a given profane or obscene word from linguistic, historic, psychological, and sociological perspectives, interspersed with segments in which well-known comedians riff on the use of those particular words in contemporary culture.  Dictionary Day (October 16–-also Noah Webster’s birthday) was celebrated on our News page by the cover image for a book edited by Sarah Ogilvie. The book is dedicated to Madeline Kripke. The link below will take you to a Word file containing the table of contents: https://dictionarysociety.com/wp-content/uplo https://dictionarysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Cambridge-Companion-to-English-Dictionaries.docx Vince McCarren on his edition of the Medulla: "Up from the depths with news that I’ve just revised all of P, Q, and R...
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Table of Contents Spring 2021

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Member News about Lynne Murphy. Kory Stamper, Sarah Ogilvie, Vincent McCarren, and job opportunities at Cambridge University Press Conferences: details of our 2021 remote conference and Lise Winer's list of other meetings DSNA: Wendalyn Nichols's Publication Committee report, news about our new forum and payment system, and Sarah Ogilvie's Globalex reports Journal Transition: greetings from Lynne Murphy and appreciation of Edward Finegan Collection of Rachel Fletcher, winner of the David Murray Book Collecting Prize Dictionaries: a new column by Janet DeCesaris Biography of John Morse by Peter Sokolowski Book Preservation by Michael Hancher Education: instruction in dictionaries by Anne Curzan History: a new column by Michael Adams State of Lexicography: Defining Moments by Orin Hargraves Quotations: Ships that Pass in the Night by Elizabeth Knowles Publication Information ...
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New payment software

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We have changed with how we process member payments. Due to steep increases in the fees that PayPal and WildApricot charge us to process payments, we have decided to switch payment platforms and save money there rather that pass those increases along to our members. This means that all automatic renewals currently in our system will have to be cancelled and reinstated on the new payment platform. We know this is a hassle, and will remind you when we send our our standard renewal letter that you will need to sign up for automatic renewals once more this year. If you have any questions about this, email the office at dsnaadmin@gmail.com and we'll help get your renewal sorted. ...
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DSNA 23 VIRTUAL MEETING ANNOUNCED: JUNE 4, 2021

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DSNA 23. President Elizabeth Knowles and the DSNA executive board are pleased to announce that DSNA's 23rd biennial meeting will take place virtually on Friday, June 4th, 2021. Save the date for an exciting meeting, different in structure from previous DSNA biennials! Further details to come soon. DSNA 24. To maintain DSNA's history of meeting in odd-numbered years, the meeting previously scheduled for 2021 at the University of Colorado, Boulder will instead take place in 2023 at that university. ...
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Dictionary Day

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In honor of Dictionary Day (October 16--also Noah Webster's birthday) here is the cover image for a book edited by Sarah Ogilvie published this week. The book is dedicated to Madeline Kripke. The link below will take you to a Word file containing the table of contents. https://dictionarysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Cambridge-Companion-to-English-Dictionaries.docx ...
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ELEXIS tools and services

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17 ELEXIS partners are constantly developing and improving ELEXIS tools and services for lexicography. https://elex.is/tools-and-services/ We are constantly enriching our resources to enable smart research not only for lexicographers and researches in Natural Language Processing, but also for teachers and other professionals without formal training in lexicography. And what better way to start off a new school year than with newly developed resources? Below, you can find a comprehensive overview of all open-access resources that are currently available. The newest ones are listed first, but you can find a quick list of all resources right here: OneClick DictionaryClustyNAISCElexifierVerbAtlasSyntagNetSketchEngineLexonomyElexifinderLexicographic newsfeed ...
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New Editor of Dictionaries

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The Executive Board of DSNA is delighted to announce that Lynne Murphy has been appointed as the next Editor of Dictionaries, to take over the role when Ed Finegan steps down next year. Lynne is an accomplished lexicologist and theoretical semanticist, the author of Semantic Relations and the Lexicon (Cambridge UP, 2003) and Lexical Meaning (Cambridge UP, 2010), as well as co-author of Key Terms in Semantics (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Antonyms in English (Cambridge, 2012). She is also author of the extremely popular The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship between American and British English (Penguin, 2018), written with support of a very competitive National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for public-facing scholarship. She is the Lynneguist behind the blog, Separated by a Common Language. She has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Baylor University, and the University of Sussex, and has been a member of DSNA at least since 1992, when she was studying for her Ph.D. with Ladislav Zgusta at the University of Illinois. Lynne’s scholarly sophistication and command of style,...
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Call for Papers 23 Biennial DSNA

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Call for Papers The 23rd Biennial Dictionary Society of North America Conference will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in June 2021. Presentations on any aspect of lexicography and lexicology in any language are welcome. Those focused on aspects of lexicology and lexicography of the American West are particularly encouraged. The conference will feature a workshop and plenary panel on lexicography of indigenous North American languages. All presenters must be members of the DSNA. To join or renew membership, click on the “Join Us!” link at the website dictionarysociety.com. The program will begin with presentations on the evening of Wednesday, June 2 and will run through Saturday afternoon, June 5. Workshop proposals (including pedagogy sessions) should be between 800 and 1000 words, excluding references. Submit these to Orin Hargraves, the conference host, at orin.hargraves@colorado.edu. Abstracts for presentations of 20 minutes, 10 minutes Q&A, are invited. Submission of abstracts (300-500 words) is via EasyAbs (http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/DSNA2021Boulder). Please do not put any self-identifying references in...
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