e-Lexicography
The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography
1st Edition
Published on 18. August 2011
368 pages
978-1-4411-0663-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks at current research and future directions in e-lexicography. Online dictionaries and reference tools are increasingly prevalent in a digitized and internet-led era in language study that has embraced computational linguistics. This book responds with theoretical and practical analysis of key topics, from a global range of contributors.
Since COBUILD in the 1980s, lexicographers have found it essential to engage with and utilize electronic computational tools. Internet dictionaries, online reference tools and even search engine optimization demand a knowledge of electronic lexicography and force a reassessment of the field. This volume looks at, amongst other topics:
* Polyfunctional versus monofunctional dictionary tools
* Developing theories of lexicography for electronic mediums
* Distinguishing between the database and the dictionary
* Online dictionaries not as data repositories but as sophisticated search engines
This volume will appeal to scholars in
lexicography and to practicing lexicographers.
Since COBUILD in the 1980s, lexicographers have found it essential to engage with and utilize electronic computational tools. Internet dictionaries, online reference tools and even search engine optimization demand a knowledge of electronic lexicography and force a reassessment of the field. This volume looks at, amongst other topics:
* Polyfunctional versus monofunctional dictionary tools
* Developing theories of lexicography for electronic mediums
* Distinguishing between the database and the dictionary
* Online dictionaries not as data repositories but as sophisticated search engines
This volume will appeal to scholars in
lexicography and to practicing lexicographers.
Reviews / Votes
This is an excellent collection of papers, which not only represents the state of the art of an emerging new field of "e-Lexicography", but also provides excellent examples of how theory and practice should go hand in hand to build a rigorous new research paradigm. This book makes abundantly clear that the dictionaries as we know them are indeed a thing of the past. Exciting pointers to the future of our discipline are explored by a string of respected scholars, and unlike similar studies, a serious attempt is made at also embedding the (future) discipline into a theoretical framework. For this reason alone, this book must be on every lexicographer's desk. All individual contributions are self-contained, with separate Notes/ Websites and many cross-references to other chapters and with bibliographical references integrated into a combined bibliography... and a useful overall subject index... [the book] has left me quite impressed, and I recommend it to you.More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0663-6 (9781441106636)
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Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera | Henning Bergenholtz
e-Lexicography
The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography
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03/2013
Bloomsbury Academic
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Persons
Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera is an Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain.
Henning Bergenholtz is a Full Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Henning Bergenholtz is a Full Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Content
Preface \ Notes on Contributors \ Introduction: The Construction of Internet Dictionaries Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Henning Bergenholtz \ 1. Learning, Unlearning and Innovation in the Planning of Electronic Dictionaries Rufus H. Gouws \ 2. Access to and Presentation of Needs-Adapted Data in Monofunctional Internet Dictionaries Henning Bergenholtz \ 3. Lexicographical and Other e-Tools for Consultation Purposes: Towards the Individualization of Needs Satisfaction Sven Tarp \ 4. Filtering and Adapting Data and Information in the Online Environment in Response to User Needs Theo Bothma \ 5. A Multi-layer Architecture for "Pluri-Monofunctional" Dictionaries Dennis Spohr \ 6. Change of Paradigm: From Linguistics to Information Science and from Dictionaries to Lexicographic Information Tools Patrick Leroyer \ 7. From Data to Dictionary Sandro Nielsen and Richard Almind \ 8. Internet Dictionaries for Cognitive and Communicative Functions: El Diccionario Ingles-Espanol de Contabilidad, Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Marta Nino-Amo \ 9. A Dictionary is a Tool, a Good Dictionary is a Monofunctional Tool Henning Bergenholtz amd Inger Bergenholtz \ 10. The Technical Realization of Three Monofunctional Phrasal Verb Dictionaries Birger Andersen and Richard Almind \ 11. Online Dictionaries of English Robert Lew \ 12. E-Dictionaries in the Information Age: The Lexical Constellation Model (LCM) and the Definitional Construct, Aquilino Sanchez and Pascual Cantos \ 13. Modelling Interactive Reading, Translation and Writing Assistants Serge Verlinde \ 14. Electronic Dictionaries as Tools: Towards an Assessment of Usability Ulrich Heid \ 15. Conclusions: Ten Key Issues in e-Lexicography for the Future, Eva Samaniego Fernandez and Beatriz Perez Cabello de Alba \ References \ Index
