TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Müller-Spitzer, Carolin
A1  - Rüdiger, Jan Oliver
ED  - Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette
ED  - Engelberg, Stefan
ED  - Möhrs, Christine
ED  - Storjohann, Petra
T1  - The influence of the corpus on the representation of gender stereotypes in the dictionary. A case study of corpus-based dictionaries of German
T2  - Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress, 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany
N2  - Dictionaries are often a reflection of their time; their respective (socio-)historical context influences how the meaning of certain lexical units is described. This also applies to descriptions of personal terms such as man or woman. Lexicographers have a special responsibility to comprehensively investigate current language use before describing it in the dictionary. Accordingly, contemporary academic dictionaries are usually corpus-based. However, it is important to acknowledge that language is always embedded in cultural contexts. Our case study investigates differences in the linguistic contexts of the use of man and woman, drawing from a range of language collections (in our case fiction books, popular magazines and newspapers). We explain how potential differences in corpus construction would therefore influence the “reality” depicted in the dictionary. In doing so, we address the far-reaching consequences that the choice of corpus-linguistic basis for an empirical dictionary has on semantic descriptions in dictionary entries.Furthermore, we situate the case study within the context of gender-linguistic issues and discuss how lexicographic teams can engage with how dictionaries might perpetuate traditional role concepts when describing language use.
KW  - Korpus <Linguistik>
KW  - collocations
KW  - corpus-based lexicography
KW  - gender equality
KW  - gender linguistics
KW  - lexicography equality
KW  - Wörterbuch
KW  - Geschlechterforschung
KW  - Soziolinguistik
KW  - Lexikographie
KW  - Kollokation
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111442
UR  - https://euralex2022.ids-mannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Proceedings_11.07.2022.pdf
SN  - 978-3-937241-87-6
SB  - 978-3-937241-87-6
U6  - https://doi.org/10.14618/ids-pub-11144
DO  - https://doi.org/10.14618/ids-pub-11144
SP  - 129
EP  - 141
PB  - IDS-Verlag
CY  - Mannheim
ER  -