What is Lexicography?
[[File:Robert Blust 2017.jpg|thumb|right|American academic [[Robert Blust]] was a famous lexicographer]] '''Lexicography''' is the study of [[lexicon]]s. It is divided into two separate [[academic]] fields: * '''Practical lexicography''' is the art or [[craft]] of writing and editing [[dictionary|dictionaries]]. * '''Theoretical lexicography''' is the [[scholar|scholarly]] study of a [[language]]. A person whose works are about lexicography is called a '''lexicographer'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/lexicographer|title=Lexicographer job profile {{!}} Prospects.ac.uk|website=www.prospects.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:Vocabulary]]