Between designer drugs and afterburners: A Lexicographic-Semantic Study of Equivalence

The lexicons of natural languages are not isomorphic. Reasons for the anisomorphism can be sought on three interrelated planes: language structure, extralinguistic reality, and conceptualisation. Simply put, the relevant differences may reside in the language, the world, the mind, or any combination...

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Autor principal:	Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak
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Publicado:	Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2021
Materias:	equivalence lexicography bilingual dictionary meaning lexicon corpus encoding conceptualisation cognitive semantics conceptual metaphor denotation connotation fixed phrase free combination translation culture Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2046b99422d9421382f435caf7b156712021-12-02T07:55:12ZBetween designer drugs and afterburners: A Lexicographic-Semantic Study of Equivalence10.5788/21-1-351684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/2046b99422d9421382f435caf7b156712021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/35https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039The lexicons of natural languages are not isomorphic. Reasons for the anisomorphism can be sought on three interrelated planes: language structure, extralinguistic reality, and conceptualisation. Simply put, the relevant differences may reside in the language, the world, the mind, or any combination of these. As a result, what goes under the name of <i>lexicographic equivalence</i> is a rather heterogeneous category. Growing awareness of this fact has resulted over the years in the creation of several tentative typologies of equivalence, one of which is presented below, together with a brief discussion of some strategies for dealing with imperfect equivalence. The remaining part of the article comprises a detailed analysis of a single problem encountered while preparing a new edition of a bilingual dictionary for Polish learners of English. The task at hand involved choosing a viable counterpart for a (Polish) semantic neologism from among a few (English) equivalence candidates. In the discussion, reference is made both to the metalexicographic categories introduced earlier and to such concepts developed by lexical (especially cognitive) semantics which may prove helpful in capturing the meaning differences between the source-language item and its competing target-language renditions. This micro-scale dissection of a single specimen demonstrates that we are still some way from being able to classify, let alone deal with, all the instances of imperfect interlingual correspondence that come our way. Persisting in the efforts to advance our understanding of the complex issues covered by the blanket term lexicographic equivalence thus seems crucial for improving the treatment of meaning in bilingual dictionaries.Arleta Adamska-SałaciakWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticleequivalencelexicographybilingual dictionarymeaninglexiconcorpusencodingconceptualisationcognitive semanticsconceptual metaphordenotationconnotationfixed phrasefree combinationtranslationculturePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 21, Pp 1-22 (2021)
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topic	equivalence lexicography bilingual dictionary meaning lexicon corpus encoding conceptualisation cognitive semantics conceptual metaphor denotation connotation fixed phrase free combination translation culture Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
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description	The lexicons of natural languages are not isomorphic. Reasons for the anisomorphism can be sought on three interrelated planes: language structure, extralinguistic reality, and conceptualisation. Simply put, the relevant differences may reside in the language, the world, the mind, or any combination of these. As a result, what goes under the name of <i>lexicographic equivalence</i> is a rather heterogeneous category. Growing awareness of this fact has resulted over the years in the creation of several tentative typologies of equivalence, one of which is presented below, together with a brief discussion of some strategies for dealing with imperfect equivalence. The remaining part of the article comprises a detailed analysis of a single problem encountered while preparing a new edition of a bilingual dictionary for Polish learners of English. The task at hand involved choosing a viable counterpart for a (Polish) semantic neologism from among a few (English) equivalence candidates. In the discussion, reference is made both to the metalexicographic categories introduced earlier and to such concepts developed by lexical (especially cognitive) semantics which may prove helpful in capturing the meaning differences between the source-language item and its competing target-language renditions. This micro-scale dissection of a single specimen demonstrates that we are still some way from being able to classify, let alone deal with, all the instances of imperfect interlingual correspondence that come our way. Persisting in the efforts to advance our understanding of the complex issues covered by the blanket term lexicographic equivalence thus seems crucial for improving the treatment of meaning in bilingual dictionaries.
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title	Between designer drugs and afterburners: A Lexicographic-Semantic Study of Equivalence
title_short	Between designer drugs and afterburners: A Lexicographic-Semantic Study of Equivalence
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Between designer drugs and afterburners: A Lexicographic-Semantic Study of Equivalence

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