| Abstract: |
The Internet delivers a multifunctional medium for publishing, products and communication. The essential components of Internet-dictionarie are their global and around-the-clock availability (Chapter 4.1), doing away with a limited amount of printed pages, the possibility for continual corrections and updates of dictionary articles that have already been published (Chapter 2.2), hypertextualization and the use of multimedia integration. Within this new medium, dictionaries can be adapted and expanded using other forms of presentation, for example by creating direct links between the dictionary and the text-corpus that it is based upon or between other informational systems (Chapter 2.1.1). Using multimedia integration is considered to be particularly suitable for the presentation of lexical or lexicographic knowledge with different types of expressive mediums thus contributing to an efficient conveyance of knowledge (Chapter 2.1.2). Internet availability also means that lexicography has a totally new production technology at its disposal: making lexicographic databases available on the Internet makes it possible to create homogenous and completely networked dictionaries from different locations spread out all over the world (Chapter 3). Being a medium for communication, the Internet makes it possible to establish direct contact between the user and the lexicographer: users of an Internet-dictionary can request comprehension support via e-mail, depending on the type of situation that users find themselves in. In addition, users can also make valuable and developmental contributions to the informational status of the dictionary (Chapter 4.2). |