Dictionary Tradition vs. Pictorial Corpora: Which Vocabulary Thematic Fields Should Be Illustrated?

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Abstract:The latest research conducted by De Jong (2014) indicated that only a few European academic dictionaries, among over one hundred and fifty, use pictorial illustrations. On the other hand, it has been mentioned several times in the literature (related to both printed and electronic reference works) that visual content makes a general dictionary more attractive for the user. Therefore a new methodology, enhancing graphical strategy in lexicography, would be proposed. Firstly, a thematic division of meanings will be applied to the authentic multimodal explanations taken from two general dictionaries (verbal definition and graphical facility). As a result, commonly illustrated thematic fields will be shown along with the ones used by lexicographers in a restrained way, as well as the fields left without illustrations for some reasons. The exemplary meanings from these latest, "orphan" groups will be confronted with the query results from the authentic multimodal corpora. Such a procedure will give us some more detailed information about the obstacles connected with illustrating this particular set of senses (for example multimodal denotation and connotation problems). Keywords: MULTIMODALITY, GENERAL LEXICOGRAPHY, MONOLINGUAL DICTION-ARIES, PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATION, THEMATIC FIELDS, IDEOGRAPHY, CONNOTATION, DENOTATION, ONOMASIOLOGY, MULTIMODAL LEXICOGRAPHY Résumé: Tradition du Dictionnaire versus Corpora d'Images: Quels ChampsThématiques du Vocabulaire Doivent Etre Illustrés? Les travaux de recherche les plus récents conduits par De Jong (2014) indiquèrent que seul très peu de dictionnaires académiques en Europe, parmi un peu plus de cent cinquante, utilisent des illustrations picturales. Cependant, il a été plusieurs fois mentionné dans la littérature lexicographique (s'agissant à la fois des ouvrages de référence sur papier comme des ouvrages de références électroniques) que le contenu visuel rend un dictionnaire général plus attrayant pour l'usager. De ce fait, le présent article tente de proposer une nouvelle méthodologie en vue de renforcer une stratégie graphique en lexicographie. Premièrement, une catégorisation thématique des sens des mots s'appliquera aux explications multimodales authentiques extraits de deux dictionnaires généraux (définition verbale et provision * This article was presented as a paper at the COST ENeL WG3 meeting Between Corpora and Dictionaries/Crowdsourcing and Gamification, held in Budapest, Hungary, 24-25 February 2017. http://lexikos.journals.ac.za Dictionary Tradition vs. Pictorial Corpora 133 graphique). Conséquemment, des champs thématiques habituellement illustrés seront exposés, de même que ceux utilisés de façon restreinte par les lexicographes et ceux souvent laissés sans illustration pour diverses raisons. Des exemples des sens de ce groupe "orphelin" seront confrontés aux résultats d'une investigation des corpora authentique multimodaux. Cette procédure permettra d'obtenir des informations plus détaillées sur les obstacles qui empêchent d'illustrer un ensemble par...

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