«Unity in Diversity:
Russia and the English-Speaking World»
«Electronic and Paper Dictionaries: What is the Future»
Kirov Teachers’ Training College,
Kirov 2012
Our team:
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The teacher- organizer (Ponomarenko L.N., Kirov Teachers’ Training
College);
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The teacher-tutor on the subject (Klepinina O.U. , Kirov Teachers’
Training College);
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The social partner (Malysheve E.A. the head –master of the Scientific
Library named after Herzen , The Department of Foreign Literature);
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Mass media partner (Shitova A., the editor of college paper
“Positive”);
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Our students ( Nagisheve A., Group E-4, Plusnina J.,Group E-4, Nikulin
I,Group C2-a)
Kinds of Dictionaries
• academic dictionaries ( give academic norms, describing
lexical system of a given language) – references (contain
active words);
• encyclopaedia(describe a thing or reality) – general
dictionary( describe words);
• thesaurus (describe all the words even once mentioned in the
language)- general dictionary( describe words);
• explanatory (show the vivid connection of words)-ideographic
dictionary;
• explanatory (show the vivid connection of words)-translator;
• non-historic- historic dictionaries.
Kinds of Dictionaries (I know)
Kinds of Dictionaries ( I know)
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
electronic
books
1
2
3
4
5
kinds of dictionaries
6
7
electronic
8
number of
students
kinds of dictionaries (I know)
1; 14,625;
25%
1
2
2; 45; 75%
Kinds of Dictionaries (I use)
Names of all the things existing in the Universe are in
the dictionaries. Anatol France, a French writer, said
: “ Dictionaries are the whole Universe in the
alphabetical order”.
Kinds of dictionaries (I use)
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
kinds of
dictionaries
showing the
choice of
describing unit
tesaurus
comparison of electronic and books dictionaries (
I use)
electronic
electronic
number of
students books
8,125; 22%
1
2
29,25; 78%
Using of the Dictionaries
• A book or paper dictionary has some disadvantages, for
example: it is very heavy and big ( a small one is very poor), if
one uses medical dictionary he will find the word with only
medical meaning not general and vice versa.
• But nearly all the asked students point out the wide range of
meanings of a word and the higher quality of translation using
this dictionary. To make our analysis more accurate we
compare the number of sold electronic and book dictionaries
in the shops and electronic and book dictionaries used in the
libraries. The figures show the equality of the dictionary using
at the lesson or on-line, but book dictionaries are more often
asked in the libraries .
Using of the Dictionaries
Kinds of dictionaries sold in the shops or taken in
the libraries monthly
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Electronic
Books
sold monthly
taken from the
library monthly
The Quality of Translation
• The next step of our analysis is to measure the
quality of the translated text . So, 18 students were
asked to translate the text in 10 minutes. Nine of
them use electronic dictionary ABBY Lingvo 12, the
other nine use paper dictionaries . Having analyzed
the results based on the main criteria , that is
equivalence translation norm, genre and stylistic
norms, the norms of the interpreter speech ,
pragmatical norms, conventional norms and the
most important – communicational equivalencethe latteк translation is better.
criteria of translation
communicationa
l equivalence
conventional
norms
pragmatical
norms
the norms of the
interpreter
speech
genre and
stylistic norms
equivalence
translation norm
The Quality of Translation
the quality of translation
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
elecrtonic
book
• So, all these criteria and norm of translation are not
in paper or electronic dictionaries, but only the
process of our thinking, which can become more
intense and quicker using different kinds of
dictionaries. Electronic and Paper Dictionaries are
methods of quality interpretation.
The list of sources and
literature
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Англо-русский толковый словарь по вычислительной технике/ перевод с английского. - М: ЭКОМ Паблишерз, БИНОМ Лаборатория знаний, 2007.-591с.
Мюллер В.К. Большой англо-русский словарь / В.К.Мюллер Изд-8-е, стереотипное. – М.: Цитадель - трейд: РИПОЛ КЛАССИК: Дом XXI век, 2008. - 832с.
Dictionary of English Surnames by P.H.Reaney. Lttd.D Ph. D. FSA, London and New York, 2001.
Dictionary of British Place-Names.
A.D. Mills. Oxford Paperback References, 2003.
A pronouncing Dictionary of American English by John S. Kenyon, Thomas A. Knott, 2000.
Dictionary of American Slang. Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, 2000.
Longman , Language Activator. The World’s First Production Dictionary, 2007.
Encyclopedia of Water. David E. Newton, Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut, 2003.
Electronic resources
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Explanatory 1.51
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FVords 1.12.17
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Reword 3.0
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Словари YAXY.RU 1.0
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Краткий словарь русского компьютерного жаргона 1.03
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Японско-русский словарь JARDIC Pro 5.2.1
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Dictionarist 1.0
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Электронный словарь Многоязычный МультиЛекс Делюкс 7.2
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Электронный словарь Португальский МультиЛекс 7.2
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Электронный словарь Испанский МультиЛекс 7.2 Электронный словарь Итальянский МультиЛекс 7.2
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Электронный словарь Немецкий МультиЛекс 7.2
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Электронный словарь Французский МультиЛекс 7.2
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Электронный словарь Английский МультиЛекс Делюкс 7.2
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Электронный словарь Английский МультиЛекс 7.2
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ABC-page 2.2
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Multi-Dic 4.1 Gigapack
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Interpretatio 2.01
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Энциклопедический словарь PR и рекламы 2.0
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Большой словарь оружия 2.0