Meaning-Text Theory and its Possibilities of Application to Spanish Learner’s Dictionaries

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i45.1118

Keywords:

Pedagogical lexicography, Spanish learner’s dictionaries, Meaning-Text theory, Collocations, Lexical functions’ application

Abstract

Foreign language learners need reliable language tools that could describe language in use on the one hand and fulfill their needs on the other hand. Learner’s dictionaries are tools compiled to assist this user profile on understanding and producing language. Collocations figure in the set of major linguistic phenomena related to production tasks. This type of combinatory pattern demands better descriptions in many learner’s dictionaries, but particularly on Spanish learner’s dictionaries (SLDs) due to their poor and bad
description. This paper aims to explore the possibility to employ the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) to describe collocations in SLDs. First, we introduce general MTT postulates. Secondly, we list and analyze collocations presented by SLDs and monolingual Spanish dictionaries and compare this information with corpus data. Finally, we apply MTT to describe the set of collocations founded and propose an application of the lexical functions’ formalization. In conclusion, MTT offers a very useful method to describe collocations. The next step of this research is to present linguistic data in an even friendly way for the learner.

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Author Biography

Laura Campos de Borba, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutoranda em Letras (Estudos da Linguagem - Lexicografia), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Bolsista CAPES. Mestra em Letras (Estudos da Linguagem - Lexicografia) pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), na Linha de Pesquisa em Lexicografia, Terminologia e Tradução - Relações Textuais. Foi Bolsista de Metrado do CNPq. Possui graduação em Licenciatura em Letras Português-Espanhol pela UFRGS (2014). Bolsista IC / UFRGS Voluntária (2010), bolsista IC PIBIC/CNPq / UFRGS (2011-2014). Publicações nas áreas de Metalexicografia, Lexicografia Pedagógica e Lexicografia Hispânica. Premiações e destaques em eventos científicos. Áreas de pesquisa: Lexicografia e Metalexicografia; Língua Espanhola. Membro do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Metalexicografia e Lexicografia / CNP

Published

2018-08-22

How to Cite

Borba, L. C. de. (2018). Meaning-Text Theory and its Possibilities of Application to Spanish Learner’s Dictionaries. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(45), 156–172. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i45.1118

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SEÇÃO LINGUÍSTICA