Lexicography Lecture GDUFS Impress.pptVIP

The Practice of Lexicography: Establishing Authority and Objectivity;Structure of this lecture;Main UK dictionary publishers;Major ELT (English Language Teaching) dictionaries;How do learners’ dictionaries differ from native-speaker dictionaries?; dog1 / d￠g / noun [C] ??? 1 an animal kept as a pet, for guarding buildings, or for hunting. A young dog is called a puppy: Have you fed the dog? ? Out on the street a dog began to bark. ? dog food/biscuits … dog n. a a domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris, occurring in many different breeds kept as pets or for work or sport (Oxford Compact English Dictionary, 1996) ;English dictionaries: some historical landmarks…;The citation of authorities, the authority of citations(Johnson vs Priestley);The 19th century;The 20th century;The corpus revolution;Why use a corpus?;epidemic: entry from COBUILD 2 (1995);epidemic: concordance from the British National Corpus;epidemic: ‘Word Sketch’ analysis of the full BNC concordance;epidemic : computerized version of the entry, showing tags;epidemic: entry from COBUILD 2 (1995);We cannot trust our intuition…;The authority of science and technology I;The authority of science and technology II;Barriers to objectivity;Recent developments;Extract from the Dante database;Implications for ‘authority’;Likely developments;Additional references