Do online resources give satisfactory answers to questions about meaning and phraseology?
Abstract
In this paper we explore some aspects of the differences between printed paper dictionaries and online dictionaries in the ways in which they explain meaning and phraseology. After noting the importance of the lexicon as an inventory of linguistic items and the neglect in both linguistics and lexicography of phraseological aspects of that inventory, we investigate the treatment in online resources of phraseology – in particular, the phrasal verbs wipe out and put down – and we go on to investigate a word, dope, that has undergone some dramatic meaning changes during the 20th century. In the course of discussion, we mention the new availability of corpus evidence and the technique of Corpus Pattern Analysis, which is important for linking phraseology and meaning and distinguishing normal phraseology from rare and unusual phraseology. The online resources that we discuss include Google, the Urban Dictionary (UD), and Wiktionary.Citation
Hanks P., Franklin E. (2019) Do Online Resources Give Satisfactory Answers to Questions About Meaning and Phraseology?. In: Corpas Pastor G., Mitkov R. (eds) Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. EUROPHRAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11755. Springer, ChamPublisher
SpringerAdditional Links
http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/Type
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enISSN
0302-9743ISBN
9783030301347ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/978-3-030-30135-4_12
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