Extended article comments in online dictionaries

Authors

  • Rufus H Gouws Stellenbosch University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/lexi.24289

Keywords:

article layer, article level, comprehensive dictionary article, extended comment, online dictionary, restricted dictionary article, subcomment on semantics

Abstract

Online dictionaries offer many new options to lexicographers, including an innovative way of dealing with dictionary structures. Looking at articles in different dictionaries but especially at those in one online dictionary, this study focuses on the presentation and structuring of article comments. Both comments on semantics and comments on form as well as subcomments on semantics are discussed. In multi-layered articles, the different restricted articles accommodate different layers of subcomments. These subcomments are integrated into the higher level subcomment and together they constitute a new search position, namely, a search tunnel. Such a tunnel contains downwardly expanded as well as upwardly attached restricted articles. The allocation of all data relevant to one specific sense of a polysemous word to one search position enhances articleinternal cohesion and deviates from a traditional strict division between the comment on form and the comment on semantics. It is shown how lexicographers can employ article comments in a functional and innovative way.

Author Biography

  • Rufus H Gouws, Stellenbosch University

    Rufus Gouws is a professor in Afrikaans linguistics in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at Stellenbosch University. His research, teaching, and supervision primarily deal with metalexicography – a field in which he has published extensively, among other things as co-editor of the comprehensive Dictionaries: An international encyclopedia of lexicography. He complements his theoretical work with practical lexicography and is co-editor of a number of dictionaries. Gouws is editor of the journal Lexicographica and the book series Lexicographica Series Maior. He is a member of various scientific associations and was the first president of Afrilex, the African Association for Lexicography, of which he is currently an honorary member.

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Published

2022-12-14

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022)

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How to Cite

Gouws, R. H. (2022). Extended article comments in online dictionaries. Lexicography, 9(2), 111-138. https://doi.org/10.1558/lexi.24289