9. Lexicography PDF

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Name of the teacher: Reinhard Heuberger
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Lexicography … is concerned with dictionary making 1) Which dictionaries do you use for study purposes? - Oxford Advanced Learner, online (Leo, dict.), Oxford English Dictionary 2) List some famous dictionary publishers. - Oxford UP, Longman, Cambridge UP, Collins, Macmillan - Duden, Langenscheidt, Pons 3) What is the difference between a dictionary and an encyclopaedia? - dictionary are about words (language) and encyclopaedia about the world knowledge 4) What are the advantages of using monolingual learners’ dictionaries over bilingual ones? - grammatical information, example sentences, introduced into the foreign language 5) Which branches of linguistics provide relevant information for the compilation of dictionaries? List the branches and their application. - semantics: definitions, - syntax: grammatical information (e.g. “want sb. to do sth.) - phonetics/phonology: transcriptions - semiotics: pictures - pragmatics: usage labels (e.g. “taboo”) - morphology: irregular verbs, plurals - sociolinguistics: labels such as “British” 6) How do dictionaries convey meaning? - definition (= verbal description) - discussion (e.g. ‘usage notes’) - illustration - exemplification - translation 7) What are important principles of defining? - use words which are known to the target audience of the dictionary - be precise (adequate length) - avoid circularity (rat: big mouse, mouse: small rat) - be objective 8) Define the following terms: ‘red’ – having the colour of blood ‘flying saucer’ – a round spacecraft that some people claim to have seen and that some people believe comes from another planet ‘you’ – used to refer to people in a group you are speaking or writing 9) What are the main advantages of electronic dictionaries? - can easily be updated - easy to transport - faster access - no space limitations - multimedia features (recorded pronunciations) - usually free of charge - filter searches...