The Role of Dictionary Use in the Comprehension of Idiom Variants
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The Role of Dictionary Use in the Comprehension of Idiom Variants

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The Role of Dictionary Use in the Comprehension of Idiom Variants

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In der Reihe Lexicographica. Series Maior erscheinen schwerpunktmäßig Monographien und Sammelbände zur Lexikographie und Metalexikographie. Darüber hinaus werden Arbeiten aus dem weiteren Bereich der Lexikologie aufgenommen, sofern sie Ansätze bieten, die einen Beitrag zum Ausbau der theoretischen, methodischen und empirischen Grundlagen von Lexikographie und Metalexikographie leisten.

In den seit 1984 erschienenen mehr als 160 Bänden spiegeln sich anschaulich die Schwerpunkte und Entwicklungstendenzen der einschlägigen Forschung. Das Spektrum der behandelten Themen reicht von Problemen der Mikro- und Makrostruktur ßber typologische und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Aspekte bis hin zur anwendungsorientierten lexikographischen Dokumentation.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9783484391314
eBook ISBN
9783110891713

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Receptive Dictionary Use: Research Background
  4. 1.1. Primacy of receptive dictionary use
  5. 1.2. Complexity of the reference act: Potential pitfalls
  6. 1.3. Previous research
  7. 1.4. Methodological considerations
  8. 1.5. Rationale for further research
  9. 2. Influence of L1 Reading Research on Instruction in L2 Reading and Dictionary Use
  10. 2.0. Introduction
  11. 2.1. L1 reading models
  12. 2.2. Pedagogical implications
  13. 2.3. Concluding remarks
  14. 3. Creative Use of Idioms - a Stumbling Block to L2 Reading
  15. 3.0. Introduction
  16. 3.1. Creativity in the use of language: Non-native speakers’ dilemma
  17. 3.2. The scope of the term idiom in the present study
  18. 3.3. Distribution and function of idioms in discourse
  19. 3.4. Idiom variation: A marginal phenomenon?
  20. 3.5. Interpreting idiom variants
  21. 3.6. Concluding remarks
  22. 4. The Monolingual Learner's Dictionary as an Aid to Coping with Idiom Variation
  23. 4.0. Introduction
  24. 4.1. Findability: Cross-referencing
  25. 4.2. Semantics
  26. 4.3. Pragmatics
  27. 4.4. Applying dictionary information in context
  28. 4.5. Concluding remarks
  29. 5. The Experiment
  30. 5.0. Introduction
  31. 5.1. Aims
  32. 5.2. Design
  33. 5.3. Target items
  34. 5.4. Materials
  35. 5.5. The dictionary
  36. 5.6. Experiment
  37. 5.7. Results
  38. 5.8. Discussion
  39. 5.9. Concluding remarks
  40. Conclusions and Implications for Further Research
  41. References
  42. Appendices

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