30.3512, FYI: Understanding English Dictionaries

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3512. Wed Sep 18 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3512, FYI: Understanding English Dictionaries

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:59:21
From: Barbara McGillivray [bmcgillivray at turing.ac.uk]
Subject: Understanding English Dictionaries

 
Understanding English Dictionaries 
 
With Hilary Nesi, Michael Rundell, Sharon Creese and Barbara McGillivray 
 
Everybody uses dictionaries, but most people know very little about them. This
is particularly the case since dictionaries went online – it’s easy to look up
a word and find a dictionary entry on a computer or a mobile phone, without
being aware of which dictionary the entry came from, why the word was included
in the dictionary, how the dictionary compilers assembled this information, or
how valid it is.  
 
If you want to be better-informed about dictionary choices, explore the range
of information that dictionary entries can provide, and learn more about
dictionary compilation processes, register for our Understanding English
Dictionaries MOOC at
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-dictionaries  
 
The course is free, and starts on 16 September 2019.  It runs for 6 weeks.
There is no commitment: you can do as much or as little as you like. 
 
The course will give you the opportunity to:

- access relevant online resources 
- experiment with corpus data 
- listen to lexicographers explaining what they do 
- interact with the materials and each other 
 
The course covers the following areas: 
  
Week 1: The place of dictionaries in the modern world 
Week 2: What’s in a dictionary entry 
Week 3: Where the information in dictionaries comes from 
Week 4: How dictionary-makers select words 
Week 5: Meanings and dictionary definitions  
Week 6: Dictionaries, research and the future 
 
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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