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The influence of the corpus on the representation of gender stereotypes in the dictionary. A case study of corpus-based dictionaries of German

  • 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”1 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.

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Author:Carolin Müller-SpitzerORCiDGND, Jan Oliver RüdigerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111222
URL:https://euralex2022.ids-mannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Book_of_Abstract_11.07.2022.pdf
ISBN:978-3-937241-86-9
Parent Title (English):Dictionaries and Society. Book of ­Abstracts 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):2022/07/12
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:collocations; corpus-based lexicography; gender equality; gender linguistics; lexicography equality
GND Keyword:Deutsch; Fallstudie; Geschlechterstereotyp; Korpus <Linguistik>; Lexikografie; Wörterbuch
First Page:54
Last Page:54
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 420 Englisch
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Korpuslinguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Lexikografie
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland