The Learner's Dictionary and the Sciences:

Geoffrey Williams (1)

1 LIDILEM - LInguistique et DIdactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelles

Learner's dictionaries are at the forefront of lexicographical practice; it is through them that corpora have become standard practice, through them that the most dynamic electronic dictionaries have come onto the market. The market for such dictionaries is enormous with the big five working hard to keep and increase their share of the market. However, it may well be that they are failing to take into account the needs of a particularly user group; the ESP/EAP learner. This communications looks at how scientific usage is shown in three major learner's dictionaries and proposes a corpus-based solution using prototype theory.

Mots clés: Learner's dictionaries; lexicography; corpus linguistics; corpora

Domaines: Linguistique

Geoffrey Williams. The Learner's Dictionary and the Sciences:: Mismatch or no match?. Corpora, Language, Teaching, and Resources: From theory to practice, Peter Lang, pp.323-340, 2011, Etudes Contrastives, 9783034300544. ⟨hal-00769361⟩