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Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries. (Record no. 26633)

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International Standard Book Number 9789027260000
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Classification number PE1611 .K34 2021
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Classification number 423.028
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Personal name Kamiński, Mariusz Piotr.
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Title Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2021.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2021.
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Extent 1 online resource (344 pages)
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Series statement Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice Series ;
Volume/sequential designation v.22
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Formatted contents note Intro -- Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations used in the text -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Historical background and issues -- 2. Research questions -- 3. Studies presented in the book -- 1. Pioneering research on vocabulary control -- 1.1 Early interests in vocabulary control -- 1.2 The objective approach to vocabulary selection -- 1.2.1 Edward L. Thorndike -- 1.2.2 Ernest Horn -- 1.2.3 Lawrence Faucett and Itsu Maki -- 1.2.4 The strengths and limitations of statistical word-counts -- 1.3 The subjective approach -- 1.3.1 Harold Palmer -- 1.3.2 Michael West -- 1.3.2.1 West's defining vocabulary -- 1.4 The logical approach -- 1.5 The General Service List: Confrontation of the competing approaches -- 1.5.1 The Carnegie Conferences -- 1.5.2 The General Service List -- 1.5.3 Criticism of the GSL -- 1.6 Summary -- 2. Other major projects on vocabulary control -- 2.1 Word-lists for pedagogical purposes -- 2.1.1 The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (1971) -- 2.1.2 The Threshold Level English (1975) -- 2.1.3 The Cambridge English Lexicon (1980) -- 2.1.4 Word-lists from popular corpora: the Brown (1967), the LOB (1978), the Bank of English (1991), and the BNC (1990s) -- 2.1.5 The University Word List (1984) -- 2.1.6 The Academic Word List (2000) -- 2.1.7 The Common Core Vocabulary (2002) -- 2.1.8 A New Academic Vocabulary List (2013) -- 2.1.9 A New General Service List (2013) -- 2.2 The GSL against other word-lists and corpora -- 2.3 Controlled vocabularies for professional and human-computer communications -- 2.3.1 Controlled English for writing service manuals -- 2.3.2 Text production for machine translation -- 2.4 Identifying a core vocabulary.
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Formatted contents note 2.5 Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage and relevant projects -- 2.5.1 Natural Semantic Metalanguage -- 2.5.2 A primitive-based dictionary -- 2.5.3 Minimal English -- 2.5.4 Defining with primitives for cross-linguistic comparison -- 2.6 Summary -- 3. Defining with a controlled vocabulary: Preliminary insights -- 3.1 What is the dictionary definition? -- 3.2 Defining in plain English: A historical overview of native-speaker dictionary tradition -- 3.3 Defining in learners' dictionaries between 1935 and 1986 -- 3.3.1 Early learners' dictionaries: NMED and ISED -- 3.3.1.1 NMED (1935) -- 3.3.1.2 ISED (1942) and ALD1 (1948) -- 3.3.1.3 Conclusion -- 3.3.2 Revisions of ALD and emergence of new competitors: 1963-1986 -- 3.3.2.1 ALD2 (1963)-OALD3 (1974) -- 3.3.2.2 LDOCE1 (1978) -- 3.3.3 Conclusions -- 3.4 Review of previous studies of defining vocabularies -- 3.4.1 Summary of previous studies and implications for the current research -- 3.4.2 Research hypotheses -- 4. Quantitative analyses -- 4.1 Research design -- 4.1.1 Materials -- 4.1.2 Data selection -- 4.1.3 Research tools and reference lists -- 4.1.4 Data analysis -- 4.2 Analysis of receptive vocabulary load and other quantitative comparisons -- 4.2.1 Receptive vocabulary load of definitions -- 4.2.1.1 Coverage of definitions by Base Lists: learners' dictionaries -- 4.3 Similarity of content -- 4.3.1 Size of the lists -- 4.3.2 HCA: Similarities between the lists -- 4.3.3 Overlapping and unique items -- 4.3.4 The Core Defining Vocabulary -- 4.3.5 Multiword items -- 4.3.6 Word-building elements -- 4.4 Conclusions -- 5. Qualitative analysis -- 5.1 Research materials and methodology -- 5.1.1 Materials -- 5.1.2 Data selection -- 5.2 Learners' dictionaries (1987-2015) -- 5.2.1 LDOCE2 (1987)-LDOCE6 (2014) -- 5.2.2 OALD4 (1989) - OALD9 (2015) -- 5.2.2.1 The DV of OALD5 (1995) and subsequent editions.
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Formatted contents note Derivatives -- Combinations of words -- Restrictions on meaning -- 5.2.3 COBUILD1 (1987) - COBUILD8 (2014) -- 5.2.4 CALD1 - CALD4 (1995-2013) -- 5.2.5 MEDAL (2002-2007) -- 5.2.6 MWALED (2008) -- 5.2.7 DV in digital dictionaries -- 5.2.8 Summary and conclusion -- 5.3 Native-speaker dictionaries (1984-2011) -- 5.3.1 Analysis -- 5.3.2 Conclusions -- 6. The defining vocabulary and the user -- 6.1 Design of the experiment -- 6.1.1 Subjects -- 6.1.2 Materials -- 6.1.3 Procedure -- 6.2 Results -- 6.2.1 Comprehension of dictionary definitions -- 6.2.2 Comprehension of invented definitions -- 6.2.3 Other factors affecting comprehension score -- 6.2.4 Perception of definitions -- 6.2.5 Summary of the results -- 6.3 Discussion -- 6.4 Conclusions -- 7. General conclusions -- 1. Main findings -- 2. Implications for definition writing and DV design -- 3. Further research -- Appendix 1. The Core Defining Vocabulary (CDV) -- Appendix 2. Word Familiarity Page -- Task 1, version 1 (with LDOCE6 definitions) -- Task 1, version 2 (COBUILD-8) -- Task 1, version 3 (ODE-2) -- Task 1, version 4 (Chambers-12) -- Task 2, version 1 (all the dictionaries) -- Task 2, version 2 (all the dictionaries) -- References -- Dictionaries -- Printed dictionaries -- Dictionaries on CD-ROM/DVDs -- Online dictionaries -- Other literature -- Index.
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English language--Lexicography.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Defining vocabularies.
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Main entry heading Kamiński, Mariusz Piotr
Title Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries
Place, publisher, and date of publication Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2021
International Standard Book Number 9789027208590
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