English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties,
yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has
only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what
cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained
in cognitive semantic research for the development of new
dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and
practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an
outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography,
three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three
different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different
parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set
of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as
cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example
section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion
terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries.
Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the
features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents
a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its
description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise
language.
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