Titel: Guide Structures in CD-ROM Dictionaries, with Specific Reference to the EWED and the ELHAT
Personen:Louw, Phillip
Jahr: 2000
Typ: Aufsatz
Periodikum: Lexikos. Journal of the African Association for Lexicography
Seiten: 291-305
Band: 10
Untersuchte Sprachen: Afrikaans*Afrikaans - Afrikanische Sprachen*African Languages - Englisch*English
Schlagwörter: CD-ROM-Lexikografie*CD-ROM lexicography
Makrostruktur*macrostructure
Mediostruktur*mediostructure
Mikrostruktur*microstructure
Zugriffsstruktur*access structure
URI: http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/issue/view/67
Zuletzt besucht: 22.10.2018
Abstract: Much of the success of modern dictionaires depends on the accessibility of their macro- and microstructural information. In order to evaluate the methods which lexicographers employ to improve dictionary accessibility, the concept of guide structures was introduced by Hausmann and Wiegand (1989). Since the appearance of that article, various academics have written articles and read papers on guide structures in print dictionaries, but few studies have focussed on the tremendous potential of guide structures in electronic dictionaries. In this article it will be shown that electronic dictionaries add dimensions to the implementation of guide structures not possible in print versions. The role of two of the guide structures in the transfer of information in CD-ROM dictionaires will be discussed. The access and mediostructure of the Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary and the Elektroniese Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal will be analysed and critically evaluated to illustrate the advantages of electronic dictionaries over print dictionaries and the urgent need for metalexicographical discussion of this publication medium.