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Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera & Henning Bergenholtz (eds.). e-Lexicography. The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography.

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Manfred Markus, Clive Upton, Reinhard Heuberger (eds.). Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond. Studies in Late Modern English Dialectology.

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Online Dictionaries for Assisting Translators of Lsp Texts: The Accounting Dictionaries1

Bilingual specialized lexicography generally aims to facilitate communication within specialized domains. Bilingual terminology, in contrast, tends to focus on recording, structuring and analyzing terms by describing differences and similarities between the language communities involved. A study shows that online terminological dictionaries for translation are often insufficient and appear to be influenced by linguistic traditions and practices in the way they present and give access to data. Specialized translation dictionaries, however, provide help to solve user needs at various stages of the translation process and combine principles from specialized lexicography and Internet technology. Users have access to databases through targeted searches; lexicographers present search results in targeted, pre-arranged ways, and they can provide help to translate terms, collocations or phrases in direct response to user needs. An ongoing dictionary project shows how online dictionaries can provide help that satisfies the needs of users that arise when they are translating specialized texts.

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Logical Metonymy in Dutch and German: Equivalents of Begin, Finish, and Enjoy

In sentences such as he began the book or she finished the sandwich some unmentioned activity is metonymically inferred on the basis of the direct object. This phenomenon has been dubbed logical metonymy (Pustejovsky 1989, 1991, 1995). Previous studies on logical metonymy have mainly focussed on English. If one compares English with closely related languages such as Dutch and German, some interesting cross-linguistic differences can be revealed. This article analyses such differences by investigating Dutch and German corpus examples of some equivalents of to begin, to finish, and to enjoy. This gives general insight into the actual usage of logical metonymy and results in a detailed account of the semantics of these verbs and their objects. These issues are of crucial importance for the lexicographic practice, especially since most dictionaries lack satisfying information on these constructions.

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Dictionary Use and Vocabulary Learning in the Context of Reading

This empirical study attempts to explore the role of dictionary use in L2 vocabulary learning in reading context. It involved the use of English-Chinese bilingualized dictionaries (BLDs) for EFL vocabulary task completion and incidental vocabulary acquisition by undergraduate English majors in Chinese universities. The subjects were asked to read an English passage and perform a reading task under one of three conditions: with the aid of a paper BLD (PBLD) or an electronic BLD (EBLD), or without access to any dictionary. After task completion, they were given an unexpected retention test on the target lexical items included in the reading passage. The same retention test was repeated one week later. The study found that BLD use can effectively facilitate vocabulary comprehension and enhance incidental vocabulary acquisition, suggesting that dictionary use is a more effective strategy of vocabulary learning than contextual guessing. There was no significant difference in dictionary effectiveness between the PBLD and the EBLD, yet the latter showed some advantage over the former for vocabulary retention. Students varying on vocabulary proficiency levels and reading conditions fared differently on incidental vocabulary acquisition.

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Michael Adams, ed. 'Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors': Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography.

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Felix San Vicente (ed.). Textos fundamentales de la lexicografia italoespanola (1917-2007). * Felix San Vicente (ed.). Textos fundamentales de la lexicografia italoespanola (1805-1916).

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General and Specialized Lexical Resources: A Study on the Potential of Combining Efforts to Enrich Formal Lexicons

In this paper, we study the possibility of enriching lexical resources by adding meanings that are associated with a specialized domain. We compare a set of lexical items such as click, copy, execute and load included in two different resources: a general lexical resource called FrameNet (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010) and a specialized lexical resource of computing and the Internet called DiCoInfo (L'Homme 2008). Both resources provide explicit details on the argument structures of the lexical units; they describe their semantic and syntactic properties and provide annotated sentences. After managing the terminological and methodological differences between the resources, we compare several aspects of the lexical descriptions and organize the lexical units in terms of similarities and differences. The study reveals that most meanings described in the specialized lexical resource are not present in the general lexical resource, and could be considered for inclusion.

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Compound Verbs in Persian Wordnet

This paper discusses some linguistic issues in developing the Persian WordNet of verbs with a special focus on Persian compound verbs. It begins with describing different types of compounding mechanisms in verbs and the grammatical structure and semantic properties of each type. It then continues with discussing the lexical and conceptual relations between compound verbs in the Persian WordNet and, finally, talks about the way that properties are used in the semi-automatic extraction of compound verbs and their relations from dictionaries and text corpora.

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Cantonese ESL Learners' Use of Grammatical Information in a Monolingual Dictionary for Determining the Correct Use of a Target Word

This article reports on the results of an empirical study which investigated the use of a monolingual dictionary by advanced Cantonese ESL learners for determining the correct use of a word. Thirty-one students participated in a grammaticality judgment task using a dictionary with and without explicit grammatical information. Two types of self-reporting protocols and a post-task focus-group interview were employed to tap into the participants’ thinking processes. It was found that a monolingual dictionary was useful in helping learners determine the correct use of a word, yet it was examples rather than explicit grammatical information which helped them most. Various problems were encountered in dictionary consultation, including learners’ difficulty in identifying the transitivity of verbs and the countability of nouns. Inappropriate generalizations were occasionally made from learners’ misreading of examples. It is suggested that ESL professionals incorporate grammar training into dictionary training programs, and that lexicographers’ design and compilation of ESL dictionaries should be informed by empirical dictionary research.

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This is What a Dictionary Looks Like: The Lexicographical Contributions of Feminist Dictionaries

Feminist dictionaries published between 1970 and 2006 have received little attention in the world of lexicography. The aim of this article is to establish feminist dictionaries as ambitious revisions of lexicographical theory and practice worthy of historical documentation and contemporary consideration. Feminist dictionaries are shown to propose a form of lexicography that (1) foregrounds the material and personal circumstances of dictionary production, (2) fosters active, opinionated, and exploratory dictionary consumption, and (3) highlights meaning as contextual, contested, personal, and perspectival. This article suggests that remembering and reviving the lexicographical priorities of feminist dictionaries is valuable for telling the history and imagining the future of the dictionary genre.

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Adaptive Hypermedia and User-Oriented Data for Online Dictionaries: A Case Study on an English Dictionary of Finance for Indonesian Students

The increase in the quantity of online dictionaries does not seem to go together with an increase in the quality of these dictionaries. This may be due to a lack of focus on dictionary users and the insufficient incorporation of the latest technological features. This article tries to formulate some proposals for future online dictionaries. The discussion starts from an explanation of the user profile, user situation, and user needs. This will then become the basis to review the lexicographical solutions offered by current online dictionaries, and to create proposals for future dictionaries. The discussion includes considerations for using adaptive hypermedia and user-oriented data to create a dictionary which can better meet the various needs of the dictionary users. This article concentrates on an English Dictionary of Finance for Indonesian students, but the principles proposed may also be applicable to other types of online dictionaries.

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English Collocation Studies: The OSTI report

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Harrap's Business Dictionary English French - Dictionnaire Francais Anglais

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Van Dale Pocketwoordenboek Nederlands als tweede taal

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