Exploring the relationship between language change and dictionary: compilation in the age of the collaborative dictionary
- Autores: Sharon Creese
- Localización: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: thinking outside the paper : proceedings of the eLex 2013 conference, 17-19 October 2013, Tallinn, Estonia / coord. por Iztok Kosem, Jelena Kallas, Polona Gantar, Simon Krek, Margit Langemets, Maria Tuulik, 2013, págs. 392-406
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The rise in collaborative "wiki" dictionaries means that dictionary creation is no longer the purview solely of academics and publishing companies. Ordinary people can now create and share their own dictionary entries, whilst traditional publishing houses must compete against resources able to achieve levels of interactivity and immediacy that they simply cannot. These differences in the dictionary landscape may not be the only consequence of the rise of "wiki" dictionaries, however; the very relationship between dictionary compilation and language change may be shifting, with the speed and ease of updating of "wiki" dictionaries meaning that they not only reflect current use, but actually drive change.
This paper examines the possibility of this, through the findings of a pilot study featuring a new web-based corpus of youth neologisms, and media tracking of these new words. In it, I set out to determine the relationship between the Wiktionary definition and the grassroots use of particular words, as well as considering if and how this is changing as "wiki" dictionaries become more and more firmly established.
