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What Web Ads, Blurbs and Introductions Tell Potential Dictionary Buyers about Users, User Needs and Lexicographic Functions

open access: yesHermes, 2012
The present article deals with an investigation aimed at establishing the extent to which existing dictionaries provide potential dictionary buyers/borrowers with clear, unmistakable and easily understandable information about user need situations that ...
Birger Andersen
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Towards a new monolingual Hungarian explanatory dictionary

open access: yesStudia lexicographica, 2021
The Lexical Knowledge Representation Research Group at the Department of Lexicology is one of the youngest research groups of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, founded in February 2020. The group is currently working on a new version of a monolingual explanatory dictionary partly based on The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian ...
Lipp, Veronika, László, Simon
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Affiner la description des termes dans les dictionnaires généraux : l’apport d’un corpus de vulgarisation

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2010
The aim of the paper is to show how useful a popular-science corpus can be to improve the inventory and description of terminological units in general-purpose dictionaries.
Amélie Josselin-Leray
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Monolingual and Bilingual Learners' Dictionaries*

open access: yesLexikos, 2010
When deciding on the best learners' dictionary for a specific user and a specific situation of usage one often has to make a choice between a monolingual and a bilingual learners' dictionary. This article discusses some aspects of the user-driven approach so prevalent in modernday lexicographic thought, focuses broadly on dictionary typology and takes ...
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Sethantšo sa Sesotho and Sesuto–English Dictionar: A Comparative Analysis of their Designs and Entries

open access: yesLexikos, 2020
This article seeks to establish the relationship and extent of similarity between two Sesotho dictionaries, published in the 1800s and 2005 respectively. The two dictionaries under discussion are the Sesuto–English Dictionary by Mabille and Dieterlen and
T.L. Motjope-Mokhali   +2 more
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Some Features of Monolingual LSP Dictionaries

open access: yesLexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: Dictionaries are classified according to a certain set of criteria. On the one hand, thereare general purpose dictionaries, aiming to satisfy the needs of the majority of users, and focusedon the general vocabulary, and, on the other ...
G.-R. Mihindou
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How cognitive are Persian monolingual dictionaries?

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
AbstractThis study takes the script and lexical cohesion theories to analyze place noun definitions provided in five Persian monolingual dictionaries. According to the findings, among the lexical semantic relations, hyponymy is the most frequent semantic relation existing in place nouns’ dictionary definitions.
Famian, Ali Reza Gholi   +2 more
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A corpus-based survey of four electronic Swahili-English Bilingual dictionaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this article we survey four different electronic bilingual dictionaries for the language pair Swahili-English. Aided by a data-driven morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger, we quantify the coverage of the dictionaries on large monolingual ...
De Pauw, Guy   +2 more
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Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah   +1 more
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State-of-the-art on monolingual lexicography for Greece (EL)

open access: yesSlovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2019
The authors report on a recent survey on monolingual dictionaries available on the Greek market. General dictionaries outnumber spelling and educational ones and enjoy a prestigious status.
Stella Markantonatou, Voula Giouli
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