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The following article gives an overview on common evaluation methods that are used in reviews of bilingual dictionaries published in learned journals. Based on a corpus containing 50 reviews of printed general bilingual dictionaries for textrelated purposes with German, English or French as one of the languages, this case study is aimed at drawing a list of requirements for writing such reviews. A critical analysis of the text corpus shows which features of the reviewed dictionaries are evaluated and in which way this evaluation happens. The resulting list of requirements presents some of the principles for writing reviews of bilingual dictionaries and recommends appropriate evaluation methods for future reviews.
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This survey describes the practice of dictionary criticism in German philological periodicals. It focuses on reviews of general dictionaries of contemporary German as well as of historical dictionaries of German. Our results show that only a few reference works are reviewed by only a small group of reviewers, and different volumes of dictionaries are not necessarily reviewed systematically. On the criteria for the selection of the reviewed dictionaries one can only speculate. All in all, this rather unsystematic review practice can be interpreted as a disregard of the work of lexicographers, as a neglect of the interests of potential dictionary users, and as a sad disinterest of philologists in lexicographic work.