Phraseoculture in the construction of the corpus of the DiCoP: The treatment of the phraseographic microstructure

Abstract

This article illustrates the need to introduce phraseocultural information into specialized bilingual (or even multilingual) dictionaries, from the perspective of intercultural communication. In this sense, we present the Dictionary and Corpus of Phraseology (DiCoP) project, which is currently a computerized resource for French-Chinese and Chinese-French phraseology and will eventually be multilingual. This innovative project in the field of phraseomatics (informatics phraseology/phraseography) affects many linguistics and computer fields, such as contrastive phraseoculture, metaphraseography, phraseography, phraseotraductology, and natural language processing (NLP). In particular, we wish to demonstrate the importance of phraseoculture in computerized dictionary data and in phraseography. This paper focuses on how the DiCoP electronic dictionary reflects the phraseocultural information of the phraseological units in their microstructure. It uses examples of such microstructure to illustrate their feasibility.