The long and the short of it
A brief study of the coverage and retrieval processes of shortened forms in English online monolingual learner’s dictionaries from an EFL-user perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22304599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Pike (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2018 |
| Pages | 249-278 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lexicographica - International Annual for Lexicography / Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0175-6206 • E-ISSN: 1865-9403 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/lex-2018-0013 |
| OpenAlex | W4245480339 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The increasing usage of shortened forms in everyday spoken and written English can prove to be a substantial challenge for EFL learners at any level, both in terms of decoding and, albeit maybe to a lesser extent, encoding. This article takes a learner-based approach and assesses the needs of the learners, maps their lexicographic search routes via the outer access structure, and at the microstructural level it critically analyses the lexicographical portrayal of selected types of shortened form in three of the online English monolingual learners’ dictionaries (OMLD). A number of particular learner’s issues thereby arise and proposals for improvements to the outer and inner access structures in order to facilitate usage, to prevent waste in terms of lexicographic information costs and to enhance the acquisition of encyclopaedic knowledge are posited
Business · Lexicographical order · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Lexicography and Language Studies · Mathematics · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |