Studies on dictionary use have been gaining ground over the last three decades or so, but
while dictionary use has moved dynamically into the digital medium, user research on digital …

This paper considers how the practical business of producing dictionaries may be informed
by and facilitated by theoretical considerations. What kinds of theory have the potential to …

Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific area of lexicography. The chapters share
broadly the same format, covering a history of the area, a critical discussion of its main …

Empirical study of dictionary use is now almost one hundred years old, if we count Grinstead
(1915) as the first paper in this category. Obviously, a larger part of the long period saw very …

There is a body of studies comparing the effectiveness (and other usability aspects) of paper
and electronic dictionaries—in their various mutations—and the results are summarized in …

The article addresses the use of dictionaries among the new millennium generation of
English as a foreign language (EFL) undergraduates. Applying the mixed-method approach …

This paper examines two kinds of questions relating to the lexical needs of professional ESP
students:(1) what range of terms and words do they need help with?(2) what types of …

This article adopts a cognitive linguistic approach to idioms as motivated lexical units. The
focus is on lexicographic applications of the notion of motivation; specifically, on the …

One finding of user studies is that information on meaning tends to be what dictionary users
want most from their dictionaries. This is consistent with the traditional image of the …

Dictionary use was not a popular research topic until the final years of the twentieth century.
Welker (2010) summarizes 320 empirical dictionary use studies, but only six of these were …