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- Title
COMPILATION TECHNIQUES FOR PEDAGOGICALLY EFFECTIVE BILINGUAL LEARNERS' DICTIONARIES.
- Authors
Jack Halpern
- Abstract
Chinese, Japanese and Arabic bilingual dictionaries suffer from shortcomings rarely seen in works of other major languages. These include archaic headwords and senses, inappropriate examples, an overly prescriptive approach, learner-unfriendly sense ordering, and the omission of important multiword expressions, among others. This paper describes how three bilingual learners' dictionaries address these problems, focusing on compilation and design innovations that increase learner usability, and compares them with other dictionaries that do not meet these goals adequately. Specific issues to be addressed include sense ordering, the logical interrelatedness of senses, the semantic transparency and morphological productivity of Chinese characters, lexical categories, headword selection criteria, and the treatment of multiword expressions.
- Subjects
POLYGLOT dictionaries; CHINESE language; JAPANESE language; ARABIC language; STUDENTS' language
- Publication
International Journal of Lexicography, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 3, p323
- ISSN
0950-3846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ijl/ecw023