Dictionary Users in the Digital Revolution

Lew, Robert; Schryver, Gilles‐Maurice de

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“…The digital revolution in lexicography (Lew & de Schryver 2014) has also ushered in new research techniques. New ways of looking into the process of dictionary use have been made possible through recording eye movement patterns of dictionary users and digital logging of online dictionary use.…”

Section: Moving Forward: Online Dictionaries and Mobile Dictionariesmentioning

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Dictionaries for learners of English

Lew

2016

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The dictionary has long been a highly regarded resource in language education. A recent study (Levy & Steel 2015) suggests that (digital) dictionaries are still the single most valued tool for additional language learners. Dictionaries support learner autonomy, substituting for the human teacher in addressing 'local' lexical problems. They assist language learners in The Department of Lexicography and Lexicology at Adam Mickiewicz University inPoznań has done extensive research on dictionaries, specifically on how dictionaries are used, and should best be employed in the context of language teaching and learning. The Department forms part of the Faculty of English, which is the largest institution in continental Europe educating teachers of English at the B.A., M.A., and PhD levels. Therefore, it is only natural that the language-teaching potential of dictionaries is the main focus of the studies undertaken in the Department. Below I summarize some of the recent and current research in specific areas of language learner lexicography. Conveying the meaning effectivelyThe role of L1 in teaching additional languages has been the subject of long debate.Interestingly, the lexicographic offerings for language learners -at least for English -can be

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Section: Moving Forward: Online Dictionaries and Mobile Dictionariesmentioning

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Dictionaries for learners of English

Lew

2016

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“…The page layout for examples usually looks less "crowded" and cluttered in e-dictionaries. Individual examples often start on a new line while they tend to be run-on in traditional print dictionaries (Lew and De Schryver 2014). Contemporary designs may have large bands of space simply to suggest lightness of the reading experience and also create a sense of "room to think" or "contemplation" .…”

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Multimodal Exemplification:The Expansion of Meaning in Electronic Dictionaries

Liu

2017

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Abstract:This article investigates electronic dictionaries under the framework of SystemicFunctional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) and argues for improving their exemplification multimodally. Multimodal devices, if well coordinated, can help optimize e-dictionary examples in informativity, diversity, dynamicity and interactivity. The term multimodal exemplification is tentatively proposed under the umbrella of multimodal lexicography (Lew 2010), and defined as the selection and presentation of examples with multimodal devices for achieving greater effectiveness in exemplifying than language does alone, especially in an e-dictionary. Evidence shows that multimodal exemplification can expand the three metafunctional meanings of the e-dictionary discourse: ideational, interpersonal and textual. Ideational meaning can be enriched by not only multimodal examples per se but also cross-modal example-definition ties, and hyperlinks facilitate meaning flow in the semantic network. Interpersonal meaning can be expanded by user participation and design options, including those for page layout (spatial mode) and example genre style (verbal mode). Textual meaning can be reinforced by information value, composition, salience and framing. This article makes a first attempt to explore the intermodal relationship between a definition and the examples under the same sense, and to present a diagram illustrating a typical design of visual space in e-dictionaries. By exploring the special features of multimodal example texts, it may deepen our understanding of the emerging multimodal lexicography and complement multimodal discourse studies from a lexicographical perspective. Keywords: E-DICTIONARY, EXAMPLE, METAFUNCTIONAL MEANING, MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, MULTIMODAL EXEMPLIFICATION, MULTIMODAL LEXICOG-RAPHYOpsomming: Multimodale toeligting: Betekenisuitbreiding in elektroniese woordeboeke. In hierdie artikel word elektroniese woordeboeke binne die raamwerk van Sistemies-Funksionele Multimodale Diskoersanalise (SF-MDA) ondersoek en geargumenteer ten gunste van die verbetering van hul multimodale toeligtingshulpmiddels. Indien multimodale hulpmiddels goed gekoördineer word, kan hulle help om die e-woordeboekvoorbeelde te optimaliseer ten opsigte van informatiwiteit, diversiteit, dinamiek en interaktiwiteit. Die term multimodale toeligting word tentatief voorgestel onder die oorkoepelende multimodale leksikografie (Lew 2010), en gedefinieer as die seleksie en aanbieding van voorbeelde met behulp van multimodale hulpmiddels ten einde groter effektiwiteit in toeligting te verkry as wat met slegs taal gedoen kan word,

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“…Lew 2011b, Lew and De Schryver 2014, Töpel 2014. However, analysis of log files -which alongside questionnaires, protocols or observation, is one of the approaches to the study of dictionary use (Lew 2011a) -is not exploited as often as one could expect.…”

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Revisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries

Wójtowicz

2017

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When compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer has a set of decisions to make -starting with drawing up a lemma list to such issues as formatting a dictionary entry. Relying on corpus data while designing a lemma list and describing entries is standard in present lexicography, but there are still decisions -like the choice of a lemma or how to treat derivatives -that are often intuition-based. This article aims to investigate whether decisions put forward in Swahili dictionaries comply with users' expectations. We analyse log files from the new Swahili-Polish dictionary to investigate why looking up words goes wrong, and evaluate the choice of a lemma and the treatment of derivatives in Swahili dictionaries. Based on such data we intend to expand or modify the existing electronic dictionary to adapt to users' level of grammar and dictionary structure knowledge. During this research we identified a list of lemma lacuna that cause the majority of unsuccessful Swahili searches. The study shows that users know and understand the lemmatisation strategy of the dictionary but also reveals which word forms cause the most problems and how the lemma list of Swahili dictionaries could be expanded. Keywords: DICTIONARY USER RESEARCH, LOG FILES ANALYSIS, SWAHILI-POLISH DICTIONARY, LEMMA LIST, DERIVATIVESOpsomming: Die herbesoek van lemmalyste in Swahili-woordeboeke. Wanneer 'n woordeboek saamgestel word, moet 'n leksikograaf 'n reeks besluite neem -van die opstel van 'n lemmalys, tot kwessies soos die formatering van 'n woordeboekinskrywing. Om staat te maak op korpusdata wanneer 'n lemmalys opgestel en inskrywings beskryf word, is standaardpraktyk in die huidige leksikografie, maar daar is steeds dikwels besluite -soos die keuse van 'n lemma of hoe om afleidings te hanteer -wat op intuïsie gebaseer is. Hierdie artikel beoog om te ondersoek of besluite wat in Swahili-woordeboeke geneem is, voldoen aan gebruikers se verwagtings. Ons analiseer loglêers van die nuwe Swahili-Poolse woordeboek om te ondersoek waarom die opsoek van woorde skeefloop, en evalueer die lemmakeuse en die hantering van afleidings in Swahili-woordeboeke. Ons beoog om die bestaande elektroniese woordeboek op grond van hierdie data uit te brei of te wysig om aan te pas by gebruikers se vlak van kennis ten opsigte van grammatika en woordeboekstruktuur. Tydens hierdie navorsing het ons 'n lys van leemtes ten opsigte van lemmas geïdentifiseer wat die meerderheid van onsuksesvolle Swahili-soektogte veroorsaak. Die navorsing toon dat gebruikers die woordeboek se lemmatiseringstrategie ken en verstaan, maar openbaar ook watter woordvorme die meeste probleme veroorsaak en hoe die lemmalys van Swahiliwoordeboeke uitgebrei kan word.

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Dictionary Users in the Digital Revolution

Cited by 67 publications

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Dictionaries for learners of English

Dictionaries for learners of English

Multimodal Exemplification:The Expansion of Meaning in Electronic Dictionaries

Revisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries

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