TY  - CHAP
U1  - Teil eines Buches
A1  - Müller-Spitzer, Carolin
A1  - Wolfer, Sascha
ED  - Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette
T1  - Research into dictionary use
T2  - Internet lexicography. An introduction
N2  - As a rule, dictionaries are compiled to facilitate communication between people speaking different languages or language varieties as well as to provide information on individual linguistic phenomena when there is a need to look things up. In this way, dictionaries count as functional objects; in other words, their actual purpose is to be used to deal with language tasks. Research into dictionary use, which is the topic of this chapter, is concerned with the practice of using lexicographic reference works and also, more generally, with the solving of linguistic problems with the help of reference works. The goal of research into dictionary use is to discover more accurately in which situations, in what way, to what success, etc. lexicographic tools are used. This knowledge can then serve to adapt future dictionaries better to the needs of users.

This chapter is structured as follows. In the first part, we provide an introduction to the topic. User research concerns itself with actual user activity or, to put  it more generally, with the experience and observations of dictionary use and is, as such, empirically oriented. As a result, user research has to look to methods from empirical social research, and the foundations of this are the subject of the second section. The third part is devoted to user research in relation to Internet dictionaries, the subject which stands at the heart of this volume.
T3  - Lexicographica : series maior - 164 
KW  - Wörterbuch
KW  - Lexikografie
KW  - Nachschlagewerk
KW  - Internet
KW  - Online-Wörterbuch
KW  - dictionary use
KW  - lexicographic reference work
KW  - lexicographic tools
KW  - user research
KW  - Benutzerforschung
Y1  - 2024
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-128843
SN  - 0175-9264
SS  - 0175-9264
SN  - 978-3-11-123375-8
SB  - 978-3-11-123375-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111233758-010
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111233758-010
SP  - 261
EP  - 304
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin/Boston
ER  -