different between lexicography vs lexigraphy

English

Etymology

From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) +? -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/, /-s?-/
• Hyphenation: lex?i?co?gra?phy

Noun

lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)

1. (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
3. (countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

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References

Further reading

• lexicography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

lexigraph +? -y

Noun

lexigraphy (usually uncountable, plural lexigraphies)

1. (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
   • 2004, Franck Salomon, The Cord Keepers: Khipus And Cultural Life In A Peruvian Village [1], ?ISBN, page 28:

     Without prejudice against Urton's argument that khipus are theoretically capable of lexigraphic reference such as logosyllabography, I have found that actual cord lexigraphy remains conjectural.

2. (countable) A system of writing in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between symbols and words.

Coordinate terms

• semasiography

Related terms

• lexigraphic
• lexigraphical
• lexigraphically

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See also

• lexicography