"What Did Scerba Actually Mean by "Active" and "Passive" Dictionaries?"

Mikkelsen, Hans Kristian; Hyldgaard-Jensen, Karl; Zettersten, Arne

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“…According to Mikkelsen (1992) and Mugdan (1992a), for Shcherba real translation seems to be a creative activity that generally should be carried out without the consultation of dictionaries. Shcherba's idea was that when you have understood a text, then you would also be able to translate it and find the corresponding equivalents.…”

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Reflections on Dictionaries Designed to Assist Users with Text Production in a Foreign Language*

Tarp

2011

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Abstract:After a discussion of a selected part of the existing theoretical literature, the concept of foreign-language text production is analysed within the framework of the broader concept of the foreign-language learning process. Two main types of foreign-language text production are discussed, i.e. text production with and without an outline in the learner's mother tongue, followed by an analysis of the kind of assistance dictionaries can provide to the user. The main conclusion drawn from this discussion is that a dictionary designed to assist a user with both types of text production should include both an L1-L2 word list and an L2 (or L2-L1) word list. On this basis, a proposal for the lexicographic data that should be included in the respective word lists is presented, and this data is then compared with the data needed to assist the user in foreign-language text reception. The conclusion is that it is quite possible to conceive bifunctional dictionaries that can provide assistance for both foreign-language text production and foreign-language text reception. Keywords: LEXICOGRAPHY, LEARNER'S LEXICOGRAPHY, LEARNER'S DICTIONARIES, LEXICOGRAPHIC FUNCTIONS, COMMUNICATION-ORIENTATED FUNCTIONS, FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEXT RECEPTION, FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEXT PRODUCTION, USER CHAR-ACTERISTICS, USER NEEDS, USER SITUATIONS, LEXICOGRAPHIC DATAOpsomming: Gedagtes oor woordeboeke ontwerp om gebruikers te help met teksprodukise in 'n vreemde taal. Na 'n bespreking van 'n uitgesoekte deel van die bestaande teoretiese literatuur, word die konsep van vreemdetaalteksproduksie ontleed binne die raamwerk van die breër konsep van die aanleerposes van 'n vreemde taal. Twee hooftipes vreemdetaalteksproduksie word bespreek, nl. teksproduksie met en sonder 'n oorsig van die aanleerder se moedertaal, gevolg deur 'n ontleding van die soort hulp wat woordeboeke aan die gebruiker kan verleen. Die hoofgevolgtrekking gemaak uit hierdie bespreking is dat 'n woordeboek wat ontwerp is om 'n gebruiker met altwee tipes teksproduksie te help, sowel 'n L1-L2-woordelys as 'n L2-(of L2-L1) woordelys behoort in te sluit. Op hierdie basis word 'n voorstel van die leksikografiese data wat in die onderskeie woordelyste ingesluit behoort te word, aangebied, en hierdie data word dan vergelyk met die data benodig om die gebruiker by vreemdetaalresepsie te help. Die gevolgtrekking is dat dit heeltemal moontlik is om bifunksionele woordeboeke te bedink wat hulp kan verleen met sowel vreemdetaalteksproduksie as vreemdetaalteksresepsie.

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Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

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Reflections on Dictionaries Designed to Assist Users with Text Production in a Foreign Language*

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2011

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“…The distinction between conscious and spontaneous foreign-language learning was originally introduced by Shcherba in order to distinguish between the language-learning situation in Russia before and after the October Revolution in 1917 (see Mikkelsen 1992). Conscious learning is supposed to take place either as an individually planned and conducted study or related to a specific didactic system or text book.…”

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“…The study or conscious assimilation of the foreign-language system has, on the contrary, only been treated sporadically, in passing practically, in this literature, e.g. in Hausmann (1977), Mikkelsen (1992) and Tarp (1999a). As already indicated in the previous sec-tion, this conscious study constitutes a big theoretical challenge for lexicography.…”

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Basic problems of learner's lexicography

Tarp¹

2010

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In general, learner's dictionaries suffer from the fact that lexicography has been treated as a subdiscipline of linguistics and not as an independent discipline and that, correspondingly, no serious efforts have been made to develop a general theory of learner's dictionaries within the general theory of lexicography. Such a theory must undoubtedly be developed on the basis of the theory of lexicographic functions. Foreign language learning is a complex process and the very concept of a learner is in no way unambiguous. Dictionaries can be conceived to assist the learner in different aspects of the language-learning process. Accordingly, at least four main functions of a learner's dictionary can be distinguished corresponding to the following user situations: text reception in the foreign language, text production in the foreign language, conscious study of the foreign-language lexis and conscious study of the foreign-language grammar. Learner's dictionaries are, thus, not to be considered a special type of dictionaries, but constitute a more general category including various types of learner's dictionaries according to their functions or combination of functions. The great challenge to learner's lexicography is to conceive and compile dictionaries that assist the learner in as many aspects of the language-learning process as possible.

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“…Here it must be noted that when Shcherba speaks about translation in the above quotation, he apparently does not mean translation in the narrow sense of the word. According to Mikkelsen (1992) and Mugdan (1992a), for Shcherba real translation seems to be a creative activity that generally should be carried out without the consultation of dictionaries. Shcherba's idea was that when you have understood a text, then you would also be able to translate it and find the corresponding equivalents.…”

Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on dictionaries designed to assist users with text production in a foreign language

Tarp¹

2010

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After a discussion of a selected part of the existing theoretical literature, the concept of foreign-language text production is analysed within the framework of the broader concept of the foreign-language learning process. Two main types of foreign-language text production are discussed, i.e. text production with and without an outline in the learner's mother tongue, followed by an analysis of the kind of assistance dictionaries can provide to the user. The main conclusion drawn from this discussion is that a dictionary designed to assist a user with both types of text production should include both an L1-L2 word list and an L2 (or L2-L1) word list. On this basis, a proposal for the lexicographic data that should be included in the respective word lists is presented, and this data is then compared with the data needed to assist the user in foreign-language text reception. The conclusion is that it is quite possible to conceive bifunctional dictionaries that can provide assistance for both foreign-language text production and foreign-language text reception.

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"What Did Scerba Actually Mean by "Active" and "Passive" Dictionaries?"

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Reflections on Dictionaries Designed to Assist Users with Text Production in a Foreign Language*

Reflections on Dictionaries Designed to Assist Users with Text Production in a Foreign Language*

Basic problems of learner's lexicography

Reflections on dictionaries designed to assist users with text production in a foreign language

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