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The public as linguistic authority: Why users turn to internet forums to differentiate between words
(2022)
This paper addresses the question of why we face unsatisfactory German dictionary entries when looking up and comparing two similar lexical terms that are loan words, new words, (near) synonyms, or confusables. It explains how users are aware of existing reference works but still search or post on language forums, often after consulting a dictionary and experiencing a range of dictionary based problems. Firstly, these dictionary based difficulties will be scrutinised in more detail with respect to content, function, presentation, and the language of definitions. Entries documenting loan words and commonly confused pairs from different lexical reference resources serve as examples to show the short comings. Secondly, I will explain why learning about your target group involves studying discussion forums. Forums are a valuable source for detailed user studies, enabling the examination of different communicative needs, concrete linguistic questions, speakers’ intuitions, and people’s reactions to posts and comments. Thirdly, with the help of two examples I will describe how the study of chats and forums had a major impact on the development of a recently compiled German dictionary of confusables. Finally, that same problem solving approach is applied to the idea of a future dictionary of neologisms and their synonyms.
Einleitung
(2018)
Sinnrelationen wurden lange als stabile Beziehungen zwischen Wörtern betrachtet. Dabei zeigen gebrauchsorientierte Untersuchungen, dass Sinnrelationen dynamische Phänomene sind, die sich kommunikativen Bedürfnissen anpassen. Neuere Studien erforschen die Prozesse, die zur Herstellung von Gegensatz bzw. Ähnlichkeit erforderlich sind. Sie untersuchen variable Strukturen, ihre Funktionen sowie kontextuelle Bedingungen und erklären, warum einige Antonyme bessere Gegensatzpaare bilden als andere. Dieser Beitrag konzentriert sich auf deutsche und englische Synonyme und Antonyme aus korpus- und psycholinguistischer Perspektive. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Beschreibungen kontextbasierter und variabler Strukturen, in denen sinnverwandte Wörter regelhaft vorkommen. Es wird gezeigt, dass diese Strukturen über diverse Funktionen verfügen und dass mithilfe kognitiver Prozesse unterschiedlich stark konventionalisierte Muster entstehen. Traditionelle Klassifikationen und Definitionen werden im Lichte neuer empirischer Studien kritisch hinterfragt. Neuere Theorien, die sich um die Einbettung flexibler Beziehungen bemühen, werden erörtert.
Das vorliegende Handbuch vermittelt einige ausgewählte Untersuchungsperspektiven auf die Phänomene Wort und Wortschatz. Die einzelnen Beiträge ordnen die Gegenstände in einen jeweils spezifischen Zusammenhang ein und fokussieren dabei auf sprachliche Kontexte, interdisziplinäre Zusammenhänge, methodische Herangehensweisen unter dem Blickwinkel der linguistischen Theorie oder der angewandten Linguistik. Das Konzept des Wortes und des Wortschatzes erhält daher in jedem Beitrag eine eigene Bedeutung und Funktion. In Summe kommt dadurch ein komplexes Verständnis von Wort und Wortschatz zum Ausdruck, das Vielfalt und Interdisziplinarität statt Einschränkung und singuläre Ausrichtung zulässt.
Conventional descriptions of synonymous items often concentrate on common semantic traits and the degree of semantic overlap they exhibit. Their aim is to offer classifications of synonymy rather than elucidating ways of establishing contextual meaning equivalence and the cognitive prerequisites for this. Generally, they lack explanations as to how synonymy is construed in actual language use. This paper investigates principles and cognitive devices of synonymy construction as they appear in corpus data, and focuses on questions of how meaning equivalence might be conceptualised by speakers.
This paper provides a general overview of the treatment of lexico-semantic relations in different fields of research including theoretical and application-oriented disciplines. At the same time, it sketches the development of the descriptions and explanations of sense relations in various approaches as well as some methodologies which have been used to retrieve and analyse paradigmatic patterns.
Introduction
(2010)
Preface
(2010)
The public as linguistic authority: Why users turn to internet forums to differentiate between words
(2022)
This paper addresses the question of why we face unsatisfactory German dictionary entries when looking up and comparing two similar lexical terms that are loan words, new words, (near)-synonyms, or confusables. It explains how users are aware of existing reference works but still search or post on language forums, often after consulting a dictionary and experiencing a range of dictionary-based problems. Firstly, these dictionary-based difficulties will be scrutinised in more detail with respect to content, function, presentation, and the language of definitions. Entries documenting loan words and commonly confused pairs from different lexical reference resources serve as examples to show the shortcomings. Secondly, I will explain why learning about your target group involves studying discussion forums. Forums are a valuable source for detailed user studies, enabling the examination of different communicative needs, concrete linguistic questions, speakers’ intuitions, and people’s reactions to posts and comments. Thirdly, with the help of two examples I will describe how the study of chats and forums had a major impact on the development of a recently compiled German dictionary of confusables. Finally, that same problem-solving approach is applied to the idea of a future dictionary of neologisms and their synonyms.