The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?)

Published by De Gruyter 1999

The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?)

Edited by: Thomas Herbst and Kerstin Popp

Volume 95 in the series Lexicographica. Series Maior

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110947021

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About this book

This volume undertakes a detailed analysis of the latest generation of learners' dictionaries of English. It assembles the papers delivered at the eponymous symposium held at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in April 1997. There are a number of reasons why these dictionaries are of special lexicographic interest: 1. the type of learners' dictionary associated notably with the name of Hornby can look back on a long tradition in British lexicography; 2. competition between various publishers since the late 70s has given crucial impetus to the development of these dictionaries; 3. these new dictionaries are decisively marked by the evaluation of large-scale computer corpora. Central to the volume is the in-depth comparison of four dictionaries published in 1995: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE. The aim is to exemplify specific differences of approach in the four dictionaries from a wide range of viewpoints (definitions, information on valency and collocations, policy on usage examples, political correctness, etc.). A number of articles also enlarge on the history of learners' dictionaries of English, the significance of corpus linguistics for lexicography, and perspectives for the future, notably in connection with the electronic media.

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
The 1995 English learners' dictionaries — bibliographical references Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries: historical background - assessment of specific features - the perspective of the user
Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective Anthony P. Cowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE Flor Aarts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Word complementation in English learners' dictionaries - a quantitative study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and OALD5 Michael Klotz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Exemplification in EFL dictionaries Gabriele Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
The treatment of meaning in learners' dictionaries - and others Robert F. Ilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Compound nouns in learners' dictionaries Henri Béjoint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE Brigitta Mittmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Access structures of learners' dictionaries Paul Bogaards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE Kerstin Popp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The treatment of international varieties David Heath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Lexical evolution and learners' dictionaries John Ayto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Political correctness in learners' dictionaries Klaus-Dieter Barnickel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
The advanced learners' dictionary: syntax cum semantics André Moulin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Classroom experience with the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE Gisela Böhner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Teachers' demands on learners' dictionaries Burkhard Dammann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
II. Learners' dictionaries - other dictionaries
Semiotaxis and learners' dictionaries Franz Josef Hausmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Encyclopedic learners' dictionaries Jonathan Crowther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
On some differences between English and German (with respect to lexicography) Dieter Götz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Designing an English Valency Dictionary: combining linguistic theory and user-friendliness Thomas Herbst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
III. Dictionaries - corpora - perspectives
Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners' dictionaries, especially the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Della Summers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Needles and haystacks, idioms and corpora: Gaining insights into idioms, using corpus analysis Rosamund Moon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Corpora and dictionaries Jan Svartvik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Moving towards perfection: The learners' (electronic) dictionary of the future Geoffrey Leech and Hilary Nesi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Appendix: German and French abstracts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Lernerwörterbuch

eBook

Published: August 25, 2011
ISBN: 9783110947021

Hardcover

Published: October 22, 1999
ISBN: 9783484309951