A compact glossary of standard linguistic terms (largely excluding figures of speech) with indicative examples, is offered to convey a range of problems to be met in compiling any reasonably structured thesaurus. When meeting a terminological problem that you cannot express to yourself, browse through these definitions and you may gain some idea of what it is that you are up against.
This glossary is from Helen M. Townley's and Ralph D. Gee's book "Thesaurus Making╤Grow Your Own Word Stock" (London, Andre Deutsch, 1980), used by permission. It has been slightly edited and put into the form of a Boswell's Companion Index Stack.
Boswell's Companion 2.0 is a powerful tool for creating and managing collections of keywords and subject headings, glossaries and thesauri. It has special utilities for cross-referencing. It can produce Index stacks like this glossary, or a variety of styled or plain text files for use in word-processing, desktop publishing and database applications.
For more information about Boswell's Companion 2.0, you may e-mail the author (John Chapot) at JCPO@aol.com . Or telephone 415/441-4747.
Software requirements: The Thesaurus Maker's Glossary runs under Apple HyperCard version 2 or newer, or the HyperCard Player version 2 or newer. A hard drive and System version 6.0.7 or later is necessary. The HyperCard Player needs at least 900 kilobytes of memory allocated to it and is happier on faster Macs.
Getting started: To open the Thesaurus Maker's Glossary, double-click on it. Your Mac will launch the HyperCard application and go directly to the Glossary. Click on the title card to get to the text of the Glossary (note: the '#' card. To learn about using the Thesaurus Maker's Glossary, choose "Help..." from the Boswell menu. Alternately, you may launch HyperCard or the HyperCard Player by double-clicking on it (or its Home Stack), then choose "Open Stack..." from the File Menu to open the Thesaurus Maker's Glossary.
First-time users of HyperCard: Documents are called stacks, and are made up of cards (think of 3x5 index cards). Cards usually have buttons to click on and fields of text to read or type into. You might want to try out the HyperCard Tour or "What Is HyperCard" stack for more information.
The text of this glossary is copyright ⌐ 1980 by Helen M. Townley and Ralph D. Gee and is used by permission. Boswell's Companion ⌐ 1994 by John Chapot, all rights reserved.
HyperCard and HyperCard Player are trade marks of Apple Computer, Inc.
