One Database, Four Monofunctional Dictionaries

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Inger Bergenholtz, H. Bergenholtz
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Abstract

A dictionary is an information tool. In the last century most dictionaries were constructed as polyfunctional tools following a broad and imprecise understanding: A dictionary is to be used by everyone for every kind of communicative and cognitive problem. But normal tools are not polyfunctional. If you go to a shop and ask for a saw, you have to specify first what you are going to saw: a big tree or a small piece of plywood. After having explained that, you will be offered a monofunctional saw. So it should be, too, for the information tool: A good tool is a tool designed for a certain function and for a certain user group for certain needs. This paper will argue for the need of dictionary designs for monofunctional dictionaries. Doing that, we need to be aware of the fact that a lexicographical database is not a dictionary. A database contains data which can be presented in one or more monofunctional or polyfunctional dictionaries.The database of the dictionary in question comprises 4.015 (September 30st, 2012) cards with definitions, historical background, synonyms, references and links, pictures etc. Outgoing from this database, four different dictionaries are presented. All of them are dictionaries on musical terms mainly from the world of classical music, but also from commercial music and the so-called world music. The music dictionaries intend to be tools for music students in universities and music schools, for both amateurs and professional musicians and for every interested person who wants aid when reading texts on music or who wishes to get further information on musical terms and topics.
一个数据库,四个单功能字典
字典是一种信息工具。在上个世纪,大多数词典都是根据一种宽泛而不精确的理解而被构建成多功能工具:词典应该被每个人用来解决各种交际和认知问题。但是普通的工具并不是多功能的。如果你去商店要一把锯子,你必须首先说明你要锯什么:一棵大树还是一小块胶合板。解释完之后,你会得到一个单功能锯。对于信息工具来说也应该如此:一个好的工具是为特定功能和特定用户群的特定需求而设计的工具。本文将讨论对单功能字典进行字典设计的必要性。要做到这一点,我们需要意识到一个事实,即词典编纂数据库不是字典。数据库包含可以在一个或多个单功能或多功能字典中呈现的数据。该词典的数据库包括4.015张(2012年9月30日)卡片,包括定义、历史背景、同义词、参考文献和链接、图片等。从这个数据库传出,有四种不同的字典。它们都是音乐术语词典,主要来自古典音乐,也来自商业音乐和所谓的世界音乐。音乐词典旨在成为大学和音乐学院的音乐学生,业余和专业音乐家以及每一个在阅读音乐文本或希望获得音乐术语和主题进一步信息时需要帮助的感兴趣的人的工具。
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Hermes (Denmark)
Hermes (Denmark) Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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