Theo Bothma
Biographic Data
| ID | 4280081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theo Bothma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bothma |
| SIGNATURE | BOTHMA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7850-3263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Information Needs and Contextualization in the Consultation Process of Dictionaries that are Linked to e-Texts
This article focuses on various aspects regarding contextualization when e-texts are linked to integrated dictionaries. The article responds to a twofold problem statement: (1) Dictionaries linked to e-texts do not sufficiently take into account the contextualization and cotextualization of words when providing information to users. (2) The integrated dictionary may contain the items needed for contextualization and cotextualization, but the …
Remembering Sue Atkins
Michael Rundell Sue Atkins, who died in September at the age of 90, was a true visionary, and one of the most important and influential lexicographers of this or any other era. Her long and distinguished career began in the 1960s — when dictionary-making inhabited a rather amateurish, index-carded (and male-dominated) milieu — and continued well into the 21st century. By the time Sue retired (if she ever truly did), corpus-based lexicography was …
A copulative decision tree as a writing tool for Sepedi
The copulative construction in Sepedi is very complex, as is evident from the detailed and lengthy discussions that occur in standard grammar reference works of Sepedi. This article proposes a decision tree format to guide users through binary or multiple choices at various levels to choose the correct options and eventually arrive at the correct copulative construction. After a brief introduction to writing tools, the complexity of copulative co…
A taxonomy of user guidance devices for e-lexicography
The aim of this article is to give an overview of the nature of current lexicographic user guidance devices and to suggest a possible classification or taxonomy to serve as a guideline for future compilations of such tools to assist users in communicative and cognitive situations, especially in text production, text reception and computer assisted vocabulary learning. The higher levels of the taxonomy are broadly based on the Function Theory of L…
Activating whole brain(R) innovation: A means of nourishing multiple intelligence in higher education
The interconnectedness of the constructs 'whole brain(R) thinking' and 'multiple intelligence' forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when whole brain(R) thinking is activated multiple intelligence can be nourished. When this becomes evident in a higher education practice it can be claimed that such a practice is innovative. Whole brain(R) thinking that informs intelligence and vice versa is inevitable when it comes …
Why relevance theory is relevant for lexicography
This article starts by providing a brief summary of relevance theory in information science in relation to the function theory of lexicography, explaining the different types of relevance, viz. objective system relevance and the subjective types of relevance, i.e. topical, cognitive, situational, socio-cognitive and affective relevance. It then shows, at the hand of examples, why relevance is important from a user perspective in the extra-lexicog…
Automated dictionary consultation for text reception: A critical evaluation of lexicographic guidance in linked Kindle e-dictionaries
In the Amazon Kindle e-books, readers are automatically directed to a linked e-dictionary which enables the reader to obtain the meaning of the word without having to leave the book being read - the first three lines of the dictionary article are presented to the reader on the same screen as the open book. If this information is not sufficient to enable the reader to obtain the correct information to satisfy his/her information need, (s)he can fo…
An Alternative Approach to Enlightenment Age Lexicography: The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce
This article deals with lexicography from the Age of Enlightenment. The idea is not only to understand what was done but also to see if anything relevant to modern lexicography could be retrieved from this historical experience. With this objective, it will have a closer look at a specific eighteenth-century dictionary, viz. Malachy Postlethwayt’s Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce , published in four editions between 1751 and 1774. This …
Dictionary and corpus data in a common portal: State of the art and requirements for the future
Some recent dictionaries include corpus lines, links to concordances or to internet pages, or other links to dictionary-external data. Lexicographers present such external data to the user either to complement their lexicographic descriptions, or even instead of such lexicographically processed material, when the latter would be redundant to an authoritative source, or when it is simply not available. In this article, we critically review some di…
Constructing an XML database of linguistics data
A language-oriented, multi-dimensional database of the linguistic characteristics of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament can enable researchers to do ad hoc queries. XML is a suitable technology to transform free text into a database. A clause's word order can be kept intact while other features such as syntactic and semantic functions can be marked as elements or attributes. The elements or attributes from the XML 'database' can be accessed and…
Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design
Activating whole brain(R) innovation: A means of nourishing multiple intelligence in higher education
The interconnectedness of the constructs 'whole brain(R) thinking' and 'multiple intelligence' forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when whole brain(R) thinking is activated multiple intelligence can be nourished. When this becomes evident in a higher education practice it can be claimed that such a practice is innovative. Whole brain(R) thinking that informs intelligence and vice versa is inevitable when it comes …
Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design
Constructing an XML database of linguistics data
A language-oriented, multi-dimensional database of the linguistic characteristics of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament can enable researchers to do ad hoc queries. XML is a suitable technology to transform free text into a database. A clause's word order can be kept intact while other features such as syntactic and semantic functions can be marked as elements or attributes. The elements or attributes from the XML 'database' can be accessed and…
Dictionary and corpus data in a common portal: State of the art and requirements for the future
Some recent dictionaries include corpus lines, links to concordances or to internet pages, or other links to dictionary-external data. Lexicographers present such external data to the user either to complement their lexicographic descriptions, or even instead of such lexicographically processed material, when the latter would be redundant to an authoritative source, or when it is simply not available. In this article, we critically review some di…
Automated dictionary consultation for text reception: A critical evaluation of lexicographic guidance in linked Kindle e-dictionaries
In the Amazon Kindle e-books, readers are automatically directed to a linked e-dictionary which enables the reader to obtain the meaning of the word without having to leave the book being read - the first three lines of the dictionary article are presented to the reader on the same screen as the open book. If this information is not sufficient to enable the reader to obtain the correct information to satisfy his/her information need, (s)he can fo…
An Alternative Approach to Enlightenment Age Lexicography: The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce
This article deals with lexicography from the Age of Enlightenment. The idea is not only to understand what was done but also to see if anything relevant to modern lexicography could be retrieved from this historical experience. With this objective, it will have a closer look at a specific eighteenth-century dictionary, viz. Malachy Postlethwayt’s Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce , published in four editions between 1751 and 1774. This …
Why relevance theory is relevant for lexicography
This article starts by providing a brief summary of relevance theory in information science in relation to the function theory of lexicography, explaining the different types of relevance, viz. objective system relevance and the subjective types of relevance, i.e. topical, cognitive, situational, socio-cognitive and affective relevance. It then shows, at the hand of examples, why relevance is important from a user perspective in the extra-lexicog…
Activating whole brain(R) innovation: A means of nourishing multiple intelligence in higher education
The interconnectedness of the constructs 'whole brain(R) thinking' and 'multiple intelligence' forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when whole brain(R) thinking is activated multiple intelligence can be nourished. When this becomes evident in a higher education practice it can be claimed that such a practice is innovative. Whole brain(R) thinking that informs intelligence and vice versa is inevitable when it comes …
A taxonomy of user guidance devices for e-lexicography
The aim of this article is to give an overview of the nature of current lexicographic user guidance devices and to suggest a possible classification or taxonomy to serve as a guideline for future compilations of such tools to assist users in communicative and cognitive situations, especially in text production, text reception and computer assisted vocabulary learning. The higher levels of the taxonomy are broadly based on the Function Theory of L…
A copulative decision tree as a writing tool for Sepedi
The copulative construction in Sepedi is very complex, as is evident from the detailed and lengthy discussions that occur in standard grammar reference works of Sepedi. This article proposes a decision tree format to guide users through binary or multiple choices at various levels to choose the correct options and eventually arrive at the correct copulative construction. After a brief introduction to writing tools, the complexity of copulative co…
Remembering Sue Atkins
Michael Rundell Sue Atkins, who died in September at the age of 90, was a true visionary, and one of the most important and influential lexicographers of this or any other era. Her long and distinguished career began in the 1960s — when dictionary-making inhabited a rather amateurish, index-carded (and male-dominated) milieu — and continued well into the 21st century. By the time Sue retired (if she ever truly did), corpus-based lexicography was …
Information Needs and Contextualization in the Consultation Process of Dictionaries that are Linked to e-Texts
This article focuses on various aspects regarding contextualization when e-texts are linked to integrated dictionaries. The article responds to a twofold problem statement: (1) Dictionaries linked to e-texts do not sufficiently take into account the contextualization and cotextualization of words when providing information to users. (2) The integrated dictionary may contain the items needed for contextualization and cotextualization, but the …
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