Pragmatic Prefabs in Learners' Dictionaries
(2002) X EURALEX International Congress (EURALEX 2002) — Location: Center for Spogteknologi, Copenhagen (Denmark) (13.August.2002)
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- This paper sets out to investigate the coverage of one type of prefabricated expressions, namely pragmatic prefabs in learners’ dictionaries. The first section seeks to find out whether or not a series of frequently recurring pragmatic prefabs in the Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation (LOCNEC) are included in the latest editions of the five major advanced learners’ dictionaries (CIDE 1995, COBUILD 2001, LDOCE 2001, OALD 2000, MED 2002) and raises some issues concerning the inclusion or non-inclusion of such expressions. The second section examines the description of 'of course' in greater detail both from a quantitative (i.e. in terms of the number of uses distinguished and the number of examples given) and a qualitative point of view (i.e. in terms of the adequacy of the descriptions provided). The five dictionaries are compared and assessed and the contribution of learner corpus-based research to the compilation of learners’ dictionaries is highlighted. The paper concludes by making concrete suggestions for more ‘learner-aware’ dictionary coverage of pragmatic prefabs.
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De Cock, S. (2002). Pragmatic Prefabs in Learners’ Dictionaries. In Braasch, A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002 (p. p. 471-481). Center for Sprogteknologi. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/221192