Defining with simple vocabulary in English dictionaries /

"This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions. The main concern of the author is the role of a definition vocabulary in how foreign learners understand and perceive dictionary definitions. The author take...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kamiński, Mariusz (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Colección:Terminology and lexicography research and practice ; v. 22.
Temas:
English language > Lexicography.
Defining vocabulary.
Electronic books.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
English language > Lexicography
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations used in the text
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical background and issues
  • 2. Research questions
  • 3. Studies presented in the book
  • 1. Pioneering research on vocabulary control
  • 1.1 Early interests in vocabulary control
  • 1.2 The objective approach to vocabulary selection
  • 1.2.1 Edward L. Thorndike
  • 1.2.2 Ernest Horn
  • 1.2.3 Lawrence Faucett and Itsu Maki
  • 1.2.4 The strengths and limitations of statistical word-counts
  • 1.3 The subjective approach
  • 1.3.1 Harold Palmer
  • 1.3.2 Michael West
  • 1.3.2.1 West's defining vocabulary
  • 1.4 The logical approach
  • 1.5 The General Service List: Confrontation of the competing approaches
  • 1.5.1 The Carnegie Conferences
  • 1.5.2 The General Service List
  • 1.5.3 Criticism of the GSL
  • 1.6 Summary
  • 2. Other major projects on vocabulary control
  • 2.1 Word-lists for pedagogical purposes
  • 2.1.1 The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (1971)
  • 2.1.2 The Threshold Level English (1975)
  • 2.1.3 The Cambridge English Lexicon (1980)
  • 2.1.4 Word-lists from popular corpora: the Brown (1967), the LOB (1978), the Bank of English (1991), and the BNC (1990s)
  • 2.1.5 The University Word List (1984)
  • 2.1.6 The Academic Word List (2000)
  • 2.1.7 The Common Core Vocabulary (2002)
  • 2.1.8 A New Academic Vocabulary List (2013)
  • 2.1.9 A New General Service List (2013)
  • 2.2 The GSL against other word-lists and corpora
  • 2.3 Controlled vocabularies for professional and human-computer communications
  • 2.3.1 Controlled English for writing service manuals
  • 2.3.2 Text production for machine translation
  • 2.4 Identifying a core vocabulary.
  • 2.5 Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage and relevant projects
  • 2.5.1 Natural Semantic Metalanguage
  • 2.5.2 A primitive-based dictionary
  • 2.5.3 Minimal English
  • 2.5.4 Defining with primitives for cross-linguistic comparison
  • 2.6 Summary
  • 3. Defining with a controlled vocabulary: Preliminary insights
  • 3.1 What is the dictionary definition?
  • 3.2 Defining in plain English: A historical overview of native-speaker dictionary tradition
  • 3.3 Defining in learners' dictionaries between 1935 and 1986
  • 3.3.1 Early learners' dictionaries: NMED and ISED
  • 3.3.1.1 NMED (1935)
  • 3.3.1.2 ISED (1942) and ALD1 (1948)
  • 3.3.1.3 Conclusion
  • 3.3.2 Revisions of ALD and emergence of new competitors: 1963-1986
  • 3.3.2.1 ALD2 (1963)-OALD3 (1974)
  • 3.3.2.2 LDOCE1 (1978)
  • 3.3.3 Conclusions
  • 3.4 Review of previous studies of defining vocabularies
  • 3.4.1 Summary of previous studies and implications for the current research
  • 3.4.2 Research hypotheses
  • 4. Quantitative analyses
  • 4.1 Research design
  • 4.1.1 Materials
  • 4.1.2 Data selection
  • 4.1.3 Research tools and reference lists
  • 4.1.4 Data analysis
  • 4.2 Analysis of receptive vocabulary load and other quantitative comparisons
  • 4.2.1 Receptive vocabulary load of definitions
  • 4.2.1.1 Coverage of definitions by Base Lists: learners' dictionaries
  • 4.3 Similarity of content
  • 4.3.1 Size of the lists
  • 4.3.2 HCA: Similarities between the lists
  • 4.3.3 Overlapping and unique items
  • 4.3.4 The Core Defining Vocabulary
  • 4.3.5 Multiword items
  • 4.3.6 Word-building elements
  • 4.4 Conclusions
  • 5. Qualitative analysis
  • 5.1 Research materials and methodology
  • 5.1.1 Materials
  • 5.1.2 Data selection
  • 5.2 Learners' dictionaries (1987-2015)
  • 5.2.1 LDOCE2 (1987)-LDOCE6 (2014)
  • 5.2.2 OALD4 (1989)
  • OALD9 (2015)
  • 5.2.2.1 The DV of OALD5 (1995) and subsequent editions.
  • Derivatives
  • Combinations of words
  • Restrictions on meaning
  • 5.2.3 COBUILD1 (1987)
  • COBUILD8 (2014)
  • 5.2.4 CALD1
  • CALD4 (1995-2013)
  • 5.2.5 MEDAL (2002-2007)
  • 5.2.6 MWALED (2008)
  • 5.2.7 DV in digital dictionaries
  • 5.2.8 Summary and conclusion
  • 5.3 Native-speaker dictionaries (1984-2011)
  • 5.3.1 Analysis
  • 5.3.2 Conclusions
  • 6. The defining vocabulary and the user
  • 6.1 Design of the experiment
  • 6.1.1 Subjects
  • 6.1.2 Materials
  • 6.1.3 Procedure
  • 6.2 Results
  • 6.2.1 Comprehension of dictionary definitions
  • 6.2.2 Comprehension of invented definitions
  • 6.2.3 Other factors affecting comprehension score
  • 6.2.4 Perception of definitions
  • 6.2.5 Summary of the results
  • 6.3 Discussion
  • 6.4 Conclusions
  • 7. General conclusions
  • 1. Main findings
  • 2. Implications for definition writing and DV design
  • 3. Further research
  • Appendix 1. The Core Defining Vocabulary (CDV)
  • Appendix 2. Word Familiarity Page
  • Task 1, version 1 (with LDOCE6 definitions)
  • Task 1, version 2 (COBUILD-8)
  • Task 1, version 3 (ODE-2)
  • Task 1, version 4 (Chambers-12)
  • Task 2, version 1 (all the dictionaries)
  • Task 2, version 2 (all the dictionaries)
  • References
  • Dictionaries
  • Printed dictionaries
  • Dictionaries on CD-ROM/DVDs
  • Online dictionaries
  • Other literature
  • Index.

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