Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries.

• Superior document: Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice Series ; v.22
• Author: Kamiński, Mariusz Piotr.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Abbreviations used in the text
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Historical background and issues
• 2. Research questions
• 3. Studies presented in the book
• 1. Pioneering research on vocabulary control
• 1.1 Early interests in vocabulary control
• 1.2 The objective approach to vocabulary selection
• 1.2.1 Edward L. Thorndike
• 1.2.2 Ernest Horn
• 1.2.3 Lawrence Faucett and Itsu Maki
• 1.2.4 The strengths and limitations of statistical word-counts
• 1.3 The subjective approach
• 1.3.1 Harold Palmer
• 1.3.2 Michael West
• 1.3.2.1 West's defining vocabulary
• 1.4 The logical approach
• 1.5 The General Service List: Confrontation of the competing approaches
• 1.5.1 The Carnegie Conferences
• 1.5.2 The General Service List
• 1.5.3 Criticism of the GSL
• 1.6 Summary
• 2. Other major projects on vocabulary control
• 2.1 Word-lists for pedagogical purposes
• 2.1.1 The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (1971)
• 2.1.2 The Threshold Level English (1975)
• 2.1.3 The Cambridge English Lexicon (1980)
• 2.1.4 Word-lists from popular corpora: the Brown (1967), the LOB (1978), the Bank of English (1991), and the BNC (1990s)
• 2.1.5 The University Word List (1984)
• 2.1.6 The Academic Word List (2000)
• 2.1.7 The Common Core Vocabulary (2002)
• 2.1.8 A New Academic Vocabulary List (2013)
• 2.1.9 A New General Service List (2013)
• 2.2 The GSL against other word-lists and corpora
• 2.3 Controlled vocabularies for professional and human-computer communications
• 2.3.1 Controlled English for writing service manuals
• 2.3.2 Text production for machine translation
• 2.4 Identifying a core vocabulary.
• 2.5 Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage and relevant projects
• 2.5.1 Natural Semantic Metalanguage
• 2.5.2 A primitive-based dictionary
• 2.5.3 Minimal English
• 2.5.4 Defining with primitives for cross-linguistic comparison
• 2.6 Summary
• 3. Defining with a controlled vocabulary: Preliminary insights
• 3.1 What is the dictionary definition?
• 3.2 Defining in plain English: A historical overview of native-speaker dictionary tradition
• 3.3 Defining in learners' dictionaries between 1935 and 1986
• 3.3.1 Early learners' dictionaries: NMED and ISED
• 3.3.1.1 NMED (1935)
• 3.3.1.2 ISED (1942) and ALD1 (1948)
• 3.3.1.3 Conclusion
• 3.3.2 Revisions of ALD and emergence of new competitors: 1963-1986
• 3.3.2.1 ALD2 (1963)-OALD3 (1974)
• 3.3.2.2 LDOCE1 (1978)
• 3.3.3 Conclusions
• 3.4 Review of previous studies of defining vocabularies
• 3.4.1 Summary of previous studies and implications for the current research
• 3.4.2 Research hypotheses
• 4. Quantitative analyses
• 4.1 Research design
• 4.1.1 Materials
• 4.1.2 Data selection
• 4.1.3 Research tools and reference lists
• 4.1.4 Data analysis
• 4.2 Analysis of receptive vocabulary load and other quantitative comparisons
• 4.2.1 Receptive vocabulary load of definitions
• 4.2.1.1 Coverage of definitions by Base Lists: learners' dictionaries
• 4.3 Similarity of content
• 4.3.1 Size of the lists
• 4.3.2 HCA: Similarities between the lists
• 4.3.3 Overlapping and unique items
• 4.3.4 The Core Defining Vocabulary
• 4.3.5 Multiword items
• 4.3.6 Word-building elements
• 4.4 Conclusions
• 5. Qualitative analysis
• 5.1 Research materials and methodology
• 5.1.1 Materials
• 5.1.2 Data selection
• 5.2 Learners' dictionaries (1987-2015)
• 5.2.1 LDOCE2 (1987)-LDOCE6 (2014)
• 5.2.2 OALD4 (1989) - OALD9 (2015)
• 5.2.2.1 The DV of OALD5 (1995) and subsequent editions.
• Derivatives
• Combinations of words
• Restrictions on meaning
• 5.2.3 COBUILD1 (1987) - COBUILD8 (2014)
• 5.2.4 CALD1 - CALD4 (1995-2013)
• 5.2.5 MEDAL (2002-2007)
• 5.2.6 MWALED (2008)
• 5.2.7 DV in digital dictionaries
• 5.2.8 Summary and conclusion
• 5.3 Native-speaker dictionaries (1984-2011)
• 5.3.1 Analysis
• 5.3.2 Conclusions
• 6. The defining vocabulary and the user
• 6.1 Design of the experiment
• 6.1.1 Subjects
• 6.1.2 Materials
• 6.1.3 Procedure
• 6.2 Results
• 6.2.1 Comprehension of dictionary definitions
• 6.2.2 Comprehension of invented definitions
• 6.2.3 Other factors affecting comprehension score
• 6.2.4 Perception of definitions
• 6.2.5 Summary of the results
• 6.3 Discussion
• 6.4 Conclusions
• 7. General conclusions
• 1. Main findings
• 2. Implications for definition writing and DV design
• 3. Further research
• Appendix 1. The Core Defining Vocabulary (CDV)
• Appendix 2. Word Familiarity Page
• Task 1, version 1 (with LDOCE6 definitions)
• Task 1, version 2 (COBUILD-8)
• Task 1, version 3 (ODE-2)
• Task 1, version 4 (Chambers-12)
• Task 2, version 1 (all the dictionaries)
• Task 2, version 2 (all the dictionaries)
• References
• Dictionaries
• Printed dictionaries
• Dictionaries on CD-ROM/DVDs
• Online dictionaries
• Other literature
• Index.