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Lorna Hiles Morris

Lexicographer

Rosebank, Cape Town

Education

PhD Lexicography Stellenbosch University (2015 – 2020)
MPhil Lexicography Stellenbosch University (2008 – 2010)
BA Hons Linguistics Rhodes University (1998)
BA (Journalism, Linguistics) Rhodes University (1995 – 1997)

Membership of professional bodies

Current Board Member of Afrilex (African Association for Lexicography)
Current Board Member of Globalex 

Awards

Consolidoc Postdoctoral fellowship award 2021
AS Hornby Dictionary Research Award 2022 – 2024

Research

My project for the AS Hornby Dictionary Research Award is A Pocket Electronic Bilingualised School Dictionary for Primary School Learners in South Africa. This is part of ongoing research following on from my dissertation.

Employment

1-06-2008 to present: Freelance lexicographer: project managing, editing, compiling, proofreading dictionary projects, as well as general editing and proofreading.

1-1-2006 – 31-05-2008: Senior editor: dictionaries and literature at Oxford University Press, Southern Africa: project managing and editing dictionary projects, as well as English school literature

1-1-2005 – 31-10-2005: English teacher, then English teacher trainer: Future English School, Dalian, China

Published articles

• Categorising Example Sentences in Dictionaries for Research Purposes, in Lexikos 21, 2011
• What cultural information can be taken from example sentences in bilingual dictionaries, and is it useful? in Festschrift Rufus H Gouws 2013
• Towards a Southern African English Defining Vocabulary, in Lexikos 24, 2014
• How school dictionaries treat human reproductive organs, and recommendations for South African primary school dictionaries, in Lexikos 32 (3) 2022
• PEDs for South African schools, in Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa 5 (1) 2023
   

Conference papers

Digital Humanities Association of South Africa 2023: PEDs for South African Schools
Held at Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa

Afrilex 2023: Cross-referencing in school dictionaries: why and how?
Held at the University of the Free State, South Africa  

Asialex 2022: Reviving pocket electronic dictionaries for schools
Virtual conference, held in Nanning, China

Afrilex 2022: Help! A user guide to user guides in electronic dictionaries
Held at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Euralex 2022: The treatment of human reproductive organs in school dictionaries, with recommendations for South African primary school dictionaries
Held in Mannheim, Germany

Afrilex 2021: From Concept to Design: An Electronic School Dictionary
Virtual conference, held at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Afrilex 2019: What teachers of second language learners want in an electronic school dictionary
Held in Windhoek, Namibia

Afrilex 2018: Do we need dictionary skills in the digital era? 
Held at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Afrilex 2015: To what extent do learners’ dictionaries use defining vocabularies for their examples? 
Held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Afrilex 2014: Towards a Southern African Defining Vocabulary
Held at the North West University, South Africa

Afrilex 2011: Pronunciation guides for a South African English school dictionary 
Held at the University of Namibia, Namibia

Afrilex 2010: How dictionaries can get the most out of examples
Held at the University of Botswana, Botswana

Afrilex 2009: Categorising Example Sentences for Research Purposes
Held at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa