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> From: "Gilles-Maurice de Schryver gillesmaurice.deschryver at UGent.be [lexicographylist]" <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Lexicog] Launch of Mobile Dictionary of South African English
> Date: 29 September 2020 at 06:19:29 PDT
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> ANNOUNCEMENT:
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> Release of the online Dictionary of South African English (DSAE)
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> MOBILE EDITION
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> This release presents a data-rich historical dictionary model on smartphones and tablets (iOS & Android supported, free access at http://dsae.co.za <http://dsae.co.za/>). It marks the completion of a major digitisation phase from early pilot online editions to a fully-fledged web application thoroughly adapted for Desktop and Mobile devices. The same advanced feature set is available on both platforms.
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> The dictionary was first published in print as A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (Oxford University Press, 1996) – a 25-year project documenting the development of regional English usage over three centuries. It contains 4600 main entries with 45 000 bibliographically-referenced quotations covering 17 500 word forms and their histories, including first recorded use.
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> Following extensive digital enhancements, dictionary users can now manipulate this unrivalled record of the language variety as a structured database. Words can be grouped in dictionary ‘slices’, e.g. by date of entry into the language using an interactive visual slider, or filtered by language of origin, subject or usage category (with over 180 subcategories in all). Individual word histories – often spanning centuries – can also be navigated visually by word sense or quotation evidence, revealing developmental patterns previously submerged in the written text.
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> Key features:
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> • Fully responsive design, rescales to preserve advanced Desktop features on Android & iOS (most modern browsers supported)
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> • Graphical presentation & navigation of word histories and source quotation data (data aggregation devices reveal new insights and relations)
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> • Navigate complex entries structurally, not only by sequential reading of text
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> • Powerful filtering options presented in a simple way: no unwieldy ‘advanced search’ forms to complete; stack or unstack search filters easily without cognitive overload
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> • Refine search & filter results by date span with a visual slider; sort entries (or the entire unfiltered dictionary) by year of first recorded use.
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> To access the dictionary, go to http://dsae.co.za <http://dsae.co.za/>.
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> The online DSAE is a project of the Dictionary Unit for South African English in Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa.
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> Web: www.ru.ac.za/dsae/ <http://www.ru.ac.za/dsae/>
> Email: dsae at ru.ac.za <mailto:dsae at ru.ac.za>
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> Tim van Niekerk
> Executive Director
> Dictionary Unit for S.A. English (DSAE)
> St Peter's Building, Rhodes University
> P.O. Box 94  Makhanda (Grahamstown)  6140
> South Africa
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> Tel: +27 (0)46 603 7296
> Fax: +27 (0)46 603 8107
> www.ru.ac.za/dsae/ <http://www.ru.ac.za/dsae/>
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