A Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

This article critically analyses the Longman Defining Vocabulary (LDV) in relation to its size, range and frequency, senses, parts of speech, affixes, and multiword expressions. The recent versions of the LDV contain a relatively fixed number of items. Over 85% of those items were found to be highly...

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Autor principal:	Hai Xu
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Materias:	controlled defining vocabulary longman defining vocabulary size range frequency sense indication pos indication inclusion of affixes inclusion of multiword expressions 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:a43854d805884cd4afc3839788fb105f2021-12-03T07:29:28ZA Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English10.5788/22-1-10131684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/a43854d805884cd4afc3839788fb105f2012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1013https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039This article critically analyses the Longman Defining Vocabulary (LDV) in relation to its size, range and frequency, senses, parts of speech, affixes, and multiword expressions. The recent versions of the LDV contain a relatively fixed number of items. Over 85% of those items were found to be highly frequent, and for the defining purpose, genus terms, grammatical terms, etc. have also been included. The number of affixes in the LDV has been greatly reduced, and some common derivatives have been listed separately. On the other hand, the actual size of the LDV is much larger than was reported, for LDOCE did not distinguish between the LDV items with different senses or forms. It was found that the claim of using the 'most common meanings' of the LDV items is not always held true. The parts of speech of the LDV items have not been systematically indicated. Many multiword expressions, which have been used in the definitions in LDOCE, are not part of the LDV. This study sheds some light on the improvement in the practice of using a controlled defining vocabulary in an English learner's dictionary.Hai XuWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlecontrolled defining vocabularylongman defining vocabularysizerangefrequencysense indicationpos indicationinclusion of affixesinclusion of multiword expressionsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 22, Pp 367-381 (2012)
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description	This article critically analyses the Longman Defining Vocabulary (LDV) in relation to its size, range and frequency, senses, parts of speech, affixes, and multiword expressions. The recent versions of the LDV contain a relatively fixed number of items. Over 85% of those items were found to be highly frequent, and for the defining purpose, genus terms, grammatical terms, etc. have also been included. The number of affixes in the LDV has been greatly reduced, and some common derivatives have been listed separately. On the other hand, the actual size of the LDV is much larger than was reported, for LDOCE did not distinguish between the LDV items with different senses or forms. It was found that the claim of using the 'most common meanings' of the LDV items is not always held true. The parts of speech of the LDV items have not been systematically indicated. Many multiword expressions, which have been used in the definitions in LDOCE, are not part of the LDV. This study sheds some light on the improvement in the practice of using a controlled defining vocabulary in an English learner's dictionary.
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title	A Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
title_short	A Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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A Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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