Identifying ideological strategies in the making of monolingual English language learner's dictionaries
- The aim of this paper is to show how lexicographical choices reflect ideological thinking, singled out by Eagleton (2007) into the strategies of rationalizing, legitimating, action orienting, unifying, naturalizing and universalizing. It will be carried out by examining two twenty first century editions of each of the five English monolingual learner’s dictionaries published by Cambridge, Collins, Longman, Macmillan, and Oxford. The synchronic and diachronic analyses of the dictionaries and their different editions at the macro structural level (the wordlists) and at the micro structural level (the definitional styles) will show how the reduction and change of data, derived from heterogeneous social and cultural contexts of language use, to abstract essential forms, involves decisions about the central and peripheral aspects of the lexicon and the meaning of words.
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| Author: | Laura PinnavaiaORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111739 |
| URL: | https://euralex2022.ids-mannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Proceedings_11.07.2022.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14618/ids-pub-11173 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-937241-87-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress, 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany |
| Publisher: | IDS-Verlag |
| Place of publication: | Mannheim |
| Editor: | Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Stefan Engelberg, Christine Möhrs, Petra Storjohann |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/08/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | British twenty first century lexicography; English monolingual learner’s dictionaries; ideology |
| GND Keyword: | Englischunterricht; Ideologie; Lexikographie; Makrostruktur; einsprachiges Wörterbuch |
| First Page: | 142 |
| Last Page: | 154 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 420 Englisch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Conferences, Workshops: | Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress, 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |