The master’s thesis deals with phraseological units in two monolingual learner’s dictionaries, the English Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, eight edition, and the German Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 2015 edition. The research is limited to the first ten pages of the letter N in both dictionaries. The aim of the thesis is to analyse idioms, collocations (including delexical structures), compounds and phrasal verbs in the two dictionaries, and to see how these phraseological units are treated mega-, macro- and microstructurally. In other words, the main objective of the thesis is to see where in the dictionary a user can find the phraseological units, where in the dictionary entry they can be found and which additional information they are accompanied by. The thesis also makes a comparison of the two dictionaries and presents certain problems connected with the treatment of phraseological units, as well as provides suggestions for their improvement. The thesis attempts to bring attention to the lack of detailed research of phraseological units in monolingual learner’s dictionaries, especially in German dictionaries.
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