Using Dictionaries - Studies of Dictionary Use by Language Learners and Translators

This volume draws together highly detailed studies of how dictionaries are used by different types of users, from school students to senior professors, working with a foreign language with the help of different types of dictionaries, from monolingual dictionaries for native speakers of the foreign language, through bilingual dictionaries, to monolingual dictionaries in the language of the user. The tasks being carried out include L2-L1 translation, L1-L2 translation, L2 comprehension, self-expression in L2, and various project-specific linguistic exercises. The authors have tried to include enough detail to allow readers to replicate the tests, and adapt them to serve their own interests.

List of contents

Contents: Jan H. Hulstijn/B.T. Sue Atkins, Empirical Research on Dictionary Use in Foreign-Language Learning: Survey and Discussion. - B.T. Sue Atkins/Krista Varantola, Language Learners Using Dictionaries: The Final Report on the EURALEX/AILA Research Project on Dictionary Use. - B.T. Sue Atkins/Krista Varantola, Monitoring Dictionary Use. - Kristen Mackintosh, An Empirical Study of Dictionary Use in L2-L1 Translation. - Paul Bogaards, What Type of Words do Language Learners Look Up? - Hilary Nesi, Defining a Shoehorn: The Success of Learners' Dictionary Entries for Concrete Nouns. - Krista Varantola, Translators and Their Use of Dictionaries. - Margaret Rogers/Khurshid Ahmad, The Translator and the Dictionary: Beyond Words?

Product details

• Assisted by: B. T. Sue Atkins (Editor), T Sue Atkins (Editor), B T Sue Atkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Niemeyer, Tübingen
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783484309883
• ISBN: 978-3-484-30988-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 19 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 497 g
• Illustrations: Num. figs.
• Series: Lexicographica. Series Maior; Lexicographica. Series Maior; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Literaturwissenschaft, Lexikographie, Lexikografie, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Wörterbuch; Benutzer