Sense Discrimination in Five English Learner’s Dictionaries

• Authors: Ana Halas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents the comparison of sense discrimination strategies including the structure and organization of a polysemous word entry in five English monolingual learner’s dictionaries with the aim of gaining an insight into the aspects of sense division where the given dictionaries agree and disagree. The final outcome of the analysis is the selection of features contributing to the establishment of the user friendliest sense discrimination system in a pedagogical dictionary

Keywords

EN

lexicography; lumping; polysemy; sense discrimination; splitting

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 153-164

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Ana Halas

• University of Novi Sad

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0013