EURALEX Newsletter 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

Publications Received 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

Steven Jones, M. Lynne Murphy, Carita Paradis and Caroline Willners. Antonyms in English. Construals, Constructions and Canonicity. 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

No Dictionaries in the Classroom: Translation Equivalents and Vocabulary Acquisition 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

This article examines the role of translation equivalents in the context of foreign language vocabulary teaching and learning. While current beliefs about vocabulary acquisition in typical communicati...

Contextual and Co-Textual Guidance Regarding Synonyms in General Bilingual Dictionaries 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

Sameness of meaning can be displayed in various ways in bilingual dictionaries. This paper focuses on the presentation and treatment of synonyms. 1 A brief discussion is given of the typical venue, i....

Equivalence, Synonymy, and Sameness of Meaning in a Bilingual Dictionary 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the notions of (interlingual) equivalence and (intralingual) synonymy against the notion of sameness of meaning. Secondly, a more specific question...

Phrasal and Phraseological Synonymy in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

This paper explores how phraseological units compete with monolexical units in the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED), primarily in its online version. By means o...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Synonyms: (and What it Can Tell Us About Thesauruses) 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

This article uses corpus evidence to examine uses of the word synonym in two ways. First, it examines whether uses of synonym match common dictionary definitions of the word. This turns up both senses...

Braving Synonymy: From Data to Dictionary 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

This paper approaches synonymy in lexicography from a corpus perspective, using the English adjectives brave and courageous, valiant, intrepid and plucky as a basis for discussion. I begin by looking ...

Synonymy and Sameness of Meaning: An Introductory Note 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm