Using Online Dictionaries / / ed. by Carolin Müller-Spitzer.

Until now, there has been very little research into the use of online dictionaries. In contrast, the market for online dictionaries is increasing both for academic lexicography and for commercial lexicography, with sales figures for printed reference works in continual decline. This has led to a dem...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 145
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Physical Description:1 online resource (387 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Basics
  • Review of research into the use of electronic dictionaries
  • Empirical research into dictionary use
  • Part II: General studies on online dictionaries
  • The first two international studies on online dictionaries – background information
  • Empirical data on contexts of dictionary use
  • General issues of online dictionary use
  • Online dictionaries: expectations and demands
  • Questions of design
  • Part III: Specialized studies on online dictionaries
  • Evaluation of a new web design for the dictionary portal OWID
  • Dictionary users do look up frequent words. A log file analysis
  • Rezeption der Illustration, jedoch Vernachlässigung der Paraphrase?
  • Part IV: Studies on monolingual (German) online dictionaries, esp. elexiko
  • Benutzerwünsche und -meinungen zu dem monolingualen deutschen Onlinewörterbuch elexiko
  • Index (English chapters)
  • Index (German chapters)