The representation of culture-specific lexical items in monolingual learner’s lexicography: The case of the electronic Phrase-Based Active Dictionaries

By September 7, 2022,
Page 99-112
Author Laura Giacomini, Paolo DiMuccio-Failla, Patrizio De Martin Pinter
Title The representation of culture-specific lexical items in monolingual learner’s lexicography: The case of the electronic Phrase-Based Active Dictionaries
Abstract This paper focuses on the treatment of culture­-bound lexical items in a novel type of online learner’s dictionary model, the Phrase-­Based Active Dictionary (PAD). A PAD has a strong phraseological orientation: each meaning of a word is exclusively defined in a typical phraseological context. After intro­ducing the relevant theory of realia in translation studies, we develop a broader notion of culture­-specific lexical items which is more apt to serve the purposes of learner’s lexicography and thus to satisfy the needs of a larger and often undefined target group. We discuss the treatment of such words and expres­sions in common English learner’s dictionaries and then present various excerpts from PAD entries in English, German, and Italian which display different strategies for coping with cultural contents in the lexicon. Our aim is to demonstrate that the phraseological approach at the core of the PAD model turns out to be extremely important to convey cultural knowledge in a suitable way for users to fully grasp cultural implications in language.
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Keywords Learner’s lexicography, phraseology, culture­-specific items, realia, multimedia
BibTex 
@inproceedings{euralex_mannheim_representation_2022,
address = {Mannheim},
title = {The {Representation} of {Culture}-{Specific} {Lexical} {Items} in {Monolingual} {Learner}'s {Lexicography} the {Case} of the {Electronic} {Phrase}-{Based} {Active} {Dictionaries}},
isbn = {978-3-937241-87-6},
shorttitle = {Euralex (2022)},
url = {},
language = {eng},
booktitle = {Dictionaries and {Society}.  {Proceedings} of the {XX} {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}},
publisher = {IDS-Verlag},
author = {Giacomini, Laura and DiMuccio-Failla, Paolo and De Martin Pinter, Patrizio},
editor = {Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette and Engelberg, Stefan and Möhrs, Christine and Storjohann, Petra},
year = {2022},
pages = {99--112},
}
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