Dictionary planning and design

The students should

(1) be able to analyse scientific texts regarding the topics, to formulate technical questions and find solutions to these
problems during discussions

(2) improve public speaking skills by presenting the results of the technical analyses to the other participants in an intelligible way

(3) improve communication with the fellow students

(4) practice leading a seminar discussion and answering questions regarding the topic

(5) learn how to develop a scheme for a dictionary project which includes a linguistic description of the field, a structural lexicographic conception, a scheme of the lexicographic processes as well as a scheme of IT, personnel and finances.

Unit 1: Sketch / Identifying the target group
Unit 2: Identifying the field of the dictionary
Unit 3: Conception and Planning of the dictionary basis
Unit 4: Planning of the compilation of the lemma list
Unit 5: Planning of the dictionary structure
Unit 6: Technical basics of the dictionary production
Unit 7: Editorial Procedures
Unit 8: Editorial Manual
Unit 9: Publication form
Unit 10: Overall planning
Unit 11: Print versus electronic dictionaries
Unit 12: Monitoring of the results and changes to the plan

A reading list is provided in the seminar.

Knowledge or contents: Con07, Con03, Con09

Skills or abilities: H/D01, H/D03, H/D08, H/D10

Competences: Comp01, Comp02, Comp03, Comp09

Block seminar (date and duration to be announced)

1. Opportunity:

The teachers choose one of the following:
a) 90-minute final exam on the contents of the seminar

or
b) presentation in class plus a brief paper (10-15 pages)

or
c) longer paper (15-20 pages)

2. Opportunity:
The assessment on the second opportunity will be based on the same criteria.

For students who are offically exempt from attending the assessment system will be the same as for the rest.

Academic misconduct (cheating, plagiarism in exercises or tests) will be penalized according to the University regulations on student assessment (“Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións”).

Attendance: max. 35 h.

Requirements for participation: Students must obtain 25 ECTS in the first semester.
Elective module in the second semester.
Language: German and/or English