Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur

TY - CHAP

T1 - A dangerous cocktail

T2 - databases, information techniques and lack of vision

AU - Tarp, Sven

PY - 2019/11

Y1 - 2019/11

N2 - This contribution discusses challenges to lexicography created by the new computer, information and communication technologies and techniques. It argues that the current transition period is full of paradoxes and that the main problem seems to be the subjective factor, i.e. the ability to adapt fully to the new technologies and get rid of old habits and ways of thinking. The article provides some examples of how the current challenges can be approached in terms of databases, user interfaces and other tools and techniques to assist the compilation and presentation of online dictionaries. In this context, it also calls for the opening of new areas of research into the empirical basis of dictionary production. The contribution defends the need for a lexicographical theory and a theory-based methodology which should be combined with visions on how lexicography and technology can be integrated in an ever ascending spiral that constantly provides new solutions to both old and new problems.

AB - This contribution discusses challenges to lexicography created by the new computer, information and communication technologies and techniques. It argues that the current transition period is full of paradoxes and that the main problem seems to be the subjective factor, i.e. the ability to adapt fully to the new technologies and get rid of old habits and ways of thinking. The article provides some examples of how the current challenges can be approached in terms of databases, user interfaces and other tools and techniques to assist the compilation and presentation of online dictionaries. In this context, it also calls for the opening of new areas of research into the empirical basis of dictionary production. The contribution defends the need for a lexicographical theory and a theory-based methodology which should be combined with visions on how lexicography and technology can be integrated in an ever ascending spiral that constantly provides new solutions to both old and new problems.

KW - e-lexicography

KW - Lexicographical databases

KW - Lexicographical user interfaces

KW - Information techniques

KW - Lexicographical alienation

KW - Function theory

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-11-060467-2

T3 - Lexicographica: Series Maior

SP - 51

EP - 68

BT - Studies on multilingual lexicography

A2 - Domínguez, María José

A2 - Balsa, Monica

A2 - Valcárcel Riveiro, Carlos

PB - De Gruyter

ER -