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The Third Leg of Two-legged Lexicography
Hermes, 2008 This article argues that the essence of lexicography is its capacity to satisfy the potential users’ punctual information needs in contrast to their global information needs.
Sven Tarp
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Trade and ethnolinguistic differences: A replication and extension
Economic Inquiry, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 38-53, January 2026.Abstract We revisit the role of trade on long‐run inter‐ethnic linguistic differences. Dickens (2022) hypothesized that neighboring languages are more similar when agriculture provides potential gains from inter‐ethnic trade. Since his empirical approach confounds inter‐ and intra‐ethnic trade, we replicate his main analysis using improved measures of ...
Javier Gonzalez, Ömer Özak
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Presenting Examples in Learners’ Dictionaries to Assist Chinese Learners in Writing English Texts
Hermes, 2011 It has been widely acknowledged that exemplification plays a very significant role in foreign language learning. Many studies have been conducted on dictionary examples, but little attention has been paid to how examples can assist a specific group of ...
Mei Xue
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Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2012 Uma teoria da definição lexicográfica deve estar amparada em três parâmetros: (1) uma taxonomia de paráfrases definidoras, (2) um padrão sintático e (3) um modelo semântico. Este trabalho trata do terceiro parâmetro.
Virginia Sita Farias
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Inclusion, Contrast and Polysemy in Dictionaries: The Relationship between Theory, Language Use and Lexicographic Practice [PDF]
Research in Language, 2014 This paper explores the lexicographic representation of a type of polysemy that arises when the meaning of one lexical item can either include or contrast with the meaning of another, as in the case of dog/bitch, shoe/boot, finger/thumb and animal/bird.
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ELOPE, 2009 The purpose of this paper is to review some basic postulates of the theory of semantic primitives (semantic primes) and to evaluate the applicability of the natural semantic metalanguage in cross-cultural translation.
Frančiška Trobevšek Drobnak
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UNDERSTANDING THE THEORY BEHIND LEXICOGRAPHIC PRACTICE: THE CASE OF SYNONYMY
Годишњак Филозофског факултета у Новом Саду, 1970 This paper analyzes the representation of synonymy within entries in English dictionaries of synonyms and thesauri with the aim of revealing and comparing theoretical views of this phenomenon that these lexicographic resources are based on as well as gaining an insight into the general character of the theoretical foundation of English lexicographic ...
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Theoretical Challenges to Practical Specialised Lexicography
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: During the last decades, part of lexicography has developed into an independent science with an elaborated system of theories based on the users' needs and corresponding dictionary functions.
Sven Tarp
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القضايا المعجميّة في مقدّمة معجم متن اللُّغة -قراءة وصفيّة تحليليّة-
Langues & Culturesيُعدّ الخطاب المقدّماتي من أهمّ العناصر الضّروريّة في المعاجم، يُثبت فيه المُعجميّ منهجه، ويُسطّر تفاصيله المتعلّقة بالتّرتيب الدّاخلي والخارجي وطريقة البحث فيه، كما يُشير إلى أهمّ القضايا اللُّغويّة والمعجميّة الَّتِي تخدم عمله، ونسعى في هذه الدّراسة ...
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On the lexicographic representation of numbers
, 2015 It is proven that, contrarily to the common belief, the notion of zero is not necessary for having positional representations of numbers. Namely, for any positive integer $k$, a positional representation with the symbols for $1, 2, \ldots, k$ is given ...
Manca, Vincenzo
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