The "Electronification" of the Oxford English Dictionary

Brewer, Charlotte

doi:10.1353/dic.2004.0001

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“…The OED's digital format has taken away the restrictions of alphabetization and enabled its users to explore the dictionary in ways beyond looking up individual words (Brewer 2004). John Simpson has noted how advances in computational lexicography have shifted the focus of interest from single word lookups to more general investigations of linguistic trends (Simpson 2013b).…”

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Towards improved coverage of Southeast Asian Englishes in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'

Salazar

2014

Lexicography

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This paper examines the lexicon of Southeast Asian varieties of English and its representation in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It begins by describing the OED's changing editorial policies with regard to words originating from outside of Britain. It then focusses on Southeast Asian words included in the OED's third and latest edition, and on recent efforts to improve the OED's handling of this type of vocabulary. The paper concludes with a discussion of the key issues that need to be addressed to ensure adequate treatment of Southeast Asian and other World Englishes in the OED: overcoming the shortage of written resources through targeted and collaborative research programmes, providing better regional labelling through the comparative study of the lexis of national and regional varieties, and diversifying the OED's coverage of Southeast Asian Englishes by including words and meanings of more current usage, as well as lexical innovations beyond simple borrowing.Keywords Oxford English Dictionary · Southeast Asian Englishes · World Englishes The OED and World EnglishesWidely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) contains information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of over 600,000 English words, exemplified by Communicated by Yukio Tono.

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Towards improved coverage of Southeast Asian Englishes in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'

Salazar

2014

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“… 3 For details on the production and benefits of an electronic form of the OED , see Brewer (2004: 1–43) and Brewer (2007: 213–57). …”

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The impact of Spanish on English vocabulary since 1901

Schultz¹

2017

English Today

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While there are numerous investigations of the impact of English on Spanish vocabulary, the opposite direction of lexical borrowing has as yet received fairly little attention. Spanish-derived words and meanings which have been taken over into English in the last few decades have been relatively neglected. The present article gives essential insight into the influence of Spanish on the English lexicon since 1901. I assign the different twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish borrowings to various lexical domains in order to offer an overview of the subject areas and fields of life to which Spanish has added new words and senses in recent times.

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“…(Simpson 2004b). In ähnlicher Weise bemängelt Brewer (2004) diese Unausgewogenheit. Sie stellt anhand der absoluten Zahlen der Exzerpte fest, dass einer großen Menge literarischer Exzerpte eine vergleichsweise kleine Menge an wissenschaftlichen Exzerpten gegenüberstehen.…”

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Methoden bei der Wörterbuchplanung in Zeiten der Internetlexikographie [Methods in dictionary planning in the era of Internet lexicography / Méthodes en planification dictionnairique à l’époque de la lexicographie en ligne]

Geyken¹

2014

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The German dictionary market has been confronted with a dramatic change in the past years. Traditional dictionary publishers shrank dramatically or even disappeared completely, and the largest academic dictionary, the Grimmsches Worterbuch, will definitely stop its work in 2016. This paper discusses how large documentary reference dictionaries can be planned and produced in this new context for the German market. The focus of this paper is put on the technological conditions and their impact on planning the lexicographical process, including the corpus base, automatization of information extraction, aggregation of existing information, workflow management, online-publication as well as user contributions. Several examples of existing German and English dictionary projects are discussed with respect to these aspects. A particular focus is placed on the Digitales Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS). It is shown how the new technological possibilities help to balance richness and up-to-dateness of information with consistency and a minimum amount of redundancy, and more generally how a flexible project workflow can be established where time and budget constraints can be adapted to the project goals.

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The "Electronification" of the Oxford English Dictionary

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Towards improved coverage of Southeast Asian Englishes in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'

Towards improved coverage of Southeast Asian Englishes in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'

The impact of Spanish on English vocabulary since 1901

Methoden bei der Wörterbuchplanung in Zeiten der Internetlexikographie [Methods in dictionary planning in the era of Internet lexicography / Méthodes en planification dictionnairique à l’époque de la lexicographie en ligne]

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