Titel:	Uses and users of dictionaries
Personen:	Bogaards, Paul
Jahr:	2003
Typ:	Aufsatz
Verlag:	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Ortsangabe:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia
In:	van Sterkenburg, Piet (Hg.): A Practical Guide to Lexicography
Seiten:	26-33
Schlagwörter:	Benutzungsforschung*usage research
Abstract:	Since about 1960 lexicologists and lexicographers have become more and more convinced that dictionaries have to be designed for special user groups in response to specific needs. This means that the dictionary is not exclusively or even in the first place defined as a resource containing all sorts of interesting facts and data about language, but as a tool for the solution of problems that people may have when using a language. However self-evident this position may appear with regard to the vast majority of dictionaries used throughout the world, research on dictionary use and dictionary users only really started around 1980. In this paper I would like to give a brief overview of the different approaches towards uses and users of dictionaries and comment on the methods used as well as on the results obtained. I will do so in four sections devoted to the research paradigms as they have developed over the last twenty years. In turn I will treat surveys among dictionary users, meta-lexicographical investigations, model building and experimental research.