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标题：The need for an electronic multilingual dictionary
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作者：LUDMILA DIMITROVA ; LUDMILA DIMITROVA ; RADOVAN GARABÍK 等
期刊名称：Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives
印刷版ISSN：2080-7147
电子版ISSN：2392-2397
出版年度：2014
期号：14
页码：55-64
DOI：10.11649/cs.2014.006
语种：English
出版社：Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
摘要：The paper analyses the issue of providing adequate equivalents in multilingual dictionaries. If equivalents are adequate, it means that: (1) the scope of meaning of one item is identical to its equivalent (cf. drive: drive a nail vs. drive a car); and (2) the collocations of the equivalents overlap. Two significant problems arise when searching for adequate equivalents: the lack of equivalents whose meanings are identical (narrower/wider meanings, partial overlap of meanings, more than equally good equivalent), and equivalents with homographs in a given language. Because such issues are difficult to resolve in a printed dictionary, we put forward some methods of addressing the problems in an electronic dictionary. The paper offers an example entry from such a dictionary, which presents a suggestion of a layout. We also took into consideration the potential problems which may appear if the entry is presented in this manner: first, one must set a limit for the description (a defined number of lexical units); second, one must avoid circularity, but at the same time also strive for an exhaustive description. Electronic dictionaries offer greater possibilities of presenting modern vocabulary and adding new classifiers (e.g. a classifier of politeness).
关键词：lexicography; multilingual dictionaries; interlingual equivalence; multiple meanings