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School Dictionaries for First-Language Learners
Lexikos, 2012 Acknowledging the ambiguity of terms like school dictionary, children's dictionary, first language, mother-tongue this article motivates a specific use of school dictionary, first language and learner and focuses on various problems in these dictionaries.
Sven Tarp, Rufus H. Gouws
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Contrasts in American and British dictionary cultures: the view from marketing [PDF]
, 2018 How dictionaries are marketed gives a picture of the ways in which dictionary publishers help to create, support, and maintain the contrasting “dictionary cultures” of the UK and US. Such materials show American dictionaries promoted as a tool for people
Murphy, M Lynne
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Afrikataalleksikografie: Gister, vandag en môre
Lexikos, 2017 African Language Lexicography: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. This article aims to give a perspective on African language lexicography's response to developments in international lexicographic practice in relation to new trends and changes mainly brought
D.J. Prinsloo, Elsabé Taljard
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A series of foundation phase dictionaries for a multilingual environment
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014 The aim of this article is to reflect on the design and use of the Maskew Miller Longman series of dictionaries published in several different official languages of South Africa and aimed at learners in the foundation phase of primary school.
Gouws, Rufus H. +2 more
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Cultural dictionaries in Hungary (from the history of Hungarian cultural dictionaries) [PDF]
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ukrainian Encyclopedia Studies, 2014 The aim of the article is to do an overwiev of dictionaries of cultural literacy, which appeared in Corvina Publishing House in Hungary during the last 15 years: English-Hungarian Cultural Dictionary and American-Hungarian Cultural Dictionary edited by István Bart; Japanese Cultural Lexicon, editor László D.
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NSM-based Cultural Dictionaries
Scandinavian Studies in Language, 2022 For language learners, the transition from classroom to immersion is an exhausting and difficult one. Not least because of how language is used differently “in the real world” to how it is taught in classrooms. There are many “insider” dictionaries of language but few dictionaries which take a closer look at the important words and
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IsiXhosa Lexicography: Past, Present and Future
Lexikos, 2013 This article presents a panoramic and critical overview of isiXhosa lexicography and its impact on the intellectualisation of this indigenous South African language. The history of isiXhosa lexicography dates back more than two centuries. However, there
Dion Nkomo, Zola Wababa
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Kształcenie Polonistyczne Cudzoziemców, 2020 This article discusses a thematic dictionary of a specific language pair (Chinese-Polish in this case) as a teaching aid useful in learning a language and its culture. In the search for a place for the thematic dictionary in language teaching, the author
Elżbieta Sękowska
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Lexikos, 2015 An evaluation of Pharos Aanleerderwoordeboek vir skole/Learner's Dictionary for Schools and Longman-HAT Afrikaans Dictionary and Grammar for English Speakers in an Afrikaans language learning course at university level.
Dané Claassen
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Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
Lexikos, 2013 Dictionaries and Deaf Users — Current Problems and the Need for Better Solutions. Sign language lexicography is a branch of lexicography that has until now been a largely vague, unimportant area.
Hanelle Fourie Blair
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