Dictionaries in the Internet Era

Innovation or Business as Usual? (Enrique Alcaraz Memorial Lecture 2014)

Bibliographic Data

ID11396139
AuthorsSven Tarp (0000-0003-1941-9082, Aarhus University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Issue27
Pages233
Publication date2014-11-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0214-4808 • E-ISSN: 2171-861X
PublisherUniversidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14198/raei.2014.27.13
OpenAlexW261291354
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

This article is the written version of the Enrique Alcaraz Annual Memorial Lecture, given by the author at the University of Alicante on March 26, 2014. After a brief overview of the past and present of lexicography, it presents some of the challenges and paradoxes facing the discipline in the current transition to the digital media. Through examples from lexicographical practice it provides a vision of dictionaries as information tools and presents the core elements of a general theory covering all types of lexicographical work. Upon this basis, the article discusses principles, methods and techniques which can be applied to improve the quality of present and future online dictionaries. Finally, it presents the main concept of an online business dictionary under construction where some of these principles, methods and techniques are used in order to adapt the articles visualised on the screen to the foreseen Spanish and English users’ needs in five different situations

Data science · Epistemology · Lexicographical order · Lexicography · Linguistics · Order (exchange · Quality (philosophy · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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