Within the history of modern English lexicography, individual dictionary editors have had ultimate control over the selection, meaning, and illustration of words; extensive collaboration with contributors has been limited. However, Internet technologies that easily permit exchanges between a user and a database have allowed a new type of dictionary online, one that is built by the collaboration of contributing end-users, allowing ordinary users of dictionaries who are not trained lexicographers to engage in dictionary-making. We discuss a popular online slang dictionary called UrbanDictionary.com (UD) to illustrate how lexicographic principles are joined with Web-only communication technologies to provide a context for collaborative engagem...
Online dictionaries rely increasingly on their users and leverage methods for facilitating user cont...
Studies on dictionary use have been gaining ground over the last three decades or so, but while dict...
With the rise of the Web 2.0, collaboratively constructed language resources are rivalling expert-bu...
This is a preprint version of: Lew, Robert. 2011. ‘Online Dictionaries of English’ In Fuertes-Olive...
This paper presents a range of online dictionaries of English slang, and considers their search faci...
Printed dictionaries have built a genuine identity over the years. Lexicographers work for renowned ...
Preprint of an artcile due to appear in 2013 in: OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik. ...
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, ...
This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the dictio...
This paper presents empirical fmdings from two online surveys on the use of online dictionaries, in ...
We have entered the electronic age. For users of English as a foreign language, this results in inco...
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, ...
Lexicography is considered a topic limited to the hallowed halls of learning; it is considered a sch...
This contribution explores how an open source on-line slang dictionary as Urban Dictionary takes int...
This article is the written version of the Enrique Alcaraz Annual Memorial Lecture, given by the aut...
Online dictionaries rely increasingly on their users and leverage methods for facilitating user cont...
Studies on dictionary use have been gaining ground over the last three decades or so, but while dict...
With the rise of the Web 2.0, collaboratively constructed language resources are rivalling expert-bu...
This is a preprint version of: Lew, Robert. 2011. ‘Online Dictionaries of English’ In Fuertes-Olive...
This paper presents a range of online dictionaries of English slang, and considers their search faci...
Printed dictionaries have built a genuine identity over the years. Lexicographers work for renowned ...
Preprint of an artcile due to appear in 2013 in: OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik. ...
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, ...
This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the dictio...
This paper presents empirical fmdings from two online surveys on the use of online dictionaries, in ...
We have entered the electronic age. For users of English as a foreign language, this results in inco...
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, ...
Lexicography is considered a topic limited to the hallowed halls of learning; it is considered a sch...
This contribution explores how an open source on-line slang dictionary as Urban Dictionary takes int...
This article is the written version of the Enrique Alcaraz Annual Memorial Lecture, given by the aut...
Online dictionaries rely increasingly on their users and leverage methods for facilitating user cont...
Studies on dictionary use have been gaining ground over the last three decades or so, but while dict...
With the rise of the Web 2.0, collaboratively constructed language resources are rivalling expert-bu...