Ways on Life, Communication and the Dynamics of Word Usage. How did German dictionaries cope with socio-cultural aspects and evolution of word usage and how could future systems do even better?

By September 7, 2022,
Page 23-35
Author Thomas Gloning
Title Ways on Life, Communication and the Dynamics of Word Usage. How did German dictionaries cope with socio-cultural aspects and evolution of word usage and how could future systems do even better?
Abstract Words and their usages are in many cases closely related to or embedded in social, cultural, technical and ideological contexts. This does not only apply to individual words and specific senses, but to many vocabulary zones as well. Moreover, the development of words is often related to aspects of socio-cultural evolution in a broad sense. In this paper I will have a look at traditional dictionaries and digital lexical systems focussing on the question how they deal with socio-cultural and discourse-related aspects of word usage. I will also propose a number of suggestions how future digital lexical systems might be enriched in this respect.
Session Keynote
Keywords Digital lexical systems, extended search, vocabulary organization in dictionaries, forms of representation in digital lexicography
BibTex 
@inproceedings{euralex_mannheim_ways_2022,
address = {Mannheim},
title = {Ways on {Life}, {Communication} and the {Dynamics} of {Word} {Usage}. {How} {Did} {German} {Dictionaries} {Cope} with {Socio}-{Cultural} {Aspects} and {Evolution} of {Word} {Usage} and {How} {Could} {Future} {Systems} {Do} {Even} {Better}?},
isbn = {978-3-937241-87-6},
url = {},
shorttitle = {Euralex (2022)},
language = {eng},
booktitle = {Dictionaries and {Society}. {Proceedings} of the {XX} {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}},
publisher = {IDS-Verlag},
author = {Gloning, Thomas},
editor = {Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette and Engelberg, Stefan and Möhrs, Christine and Storjohann, Petra},
year = {2022},
pages = {23--35},
}
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