The lexicographer’s dream audience : dictionary use among English majors at a Slovenian university

Vrbinc, Marjeta (avtor), Vrbinc, Alenka (avtor), Farina, Donna M. T. Cr. (avtor)

Interviews with undergraduate students from the University of Ljubljana, who are majoring in English and can be considered language specialists, investigated habits of dictionary use, look-up abilities, and perceptions of the utility and quality of definitions and illustrative examples. This contrasts with a parallel study (Farina et al. 2019) with undergraduates majoring in business and economics. Like the parallel study, this study was based on fourteen questions and nine contexts containing a clearly-marked common word used in an infrequent sense; participants had to locate the sense in a dictionary that, at the time of the studies, was the online Merriam–Webster Learner’s Dictionary, rebranded today as The Britannica Dictionary. Participants were asked to think aloud as they looked up words. Among other results, the study revealed that its participants, while they were linguistically-educated and experienced, did not fully grasp the complexity of presenting dictionary information online.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: definition, dictionary use, examples, online dictionary, user study, proficient dictionary users, preparation for dictionary use
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta ; EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: Str. 149-172
• Številčenje: Vol. 36, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-146820
• UDK: 811.111'374:378(497.4)
• ISSN pri članku: 0950-3846
• DOI: 10.1093/ijl/ecac019
• COBISS.SI-ID: 147351555
• Datum objave v RUL: 14.06.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: International journal of lexicography
• Skrajšan naslov: Int. j. lexicogr.
• Založnik: Oxford University Press
• ISSN: 0950-3846
• COBISS.SI-ID: 197933

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: slovarska razlaga, raba slovarjev, primeri rabe, spletni slovar, študija uporabnikov, napredni uporabniki slovarjev, priprava na rabo slovarjev

Projekti

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: BI-US/17-18-033
• Naslov: Dictionary User Groups: What They Can Teach Lexicographers