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4th WU Symposium on International Business Communication

DICTIONARIES AND BEYOND

April 6-8, 2011

The use of dictionaries or related resources is part and parcel of the daily routine of linguists just as much as non-linguists. Whenever language, be it foreign or native, is used in a specific context, communicators will find themselves in situations in which they make use of dictionaries, glossaries, translation aids, etc. In using such materials, people rarely stop to think about the work behind the resource in question.
The aim of this symposium is therefore to provide a forum for renowned scholars and practitioners to showcase current research as well as ongoing projects in the area of lexicography. Thus, presentations will not only shed light on the various theories underlying this important field, but will also offer an insight into the extensive work associated with the actual compilation of dictionaries.

Languages: English/German

Abstracts

Program:

Wednesday, 6 April


Building UZA 1, Main Conference Room, 2nd floor, section D

16:00-16:45 Welcome & registration
16:45-17:00 Opening
17:00-17:45 Keynote speech: H. Bergenholtz: Concepts for monofunctional accounting dictionaries
17:45-19:00 Reception

Thursday, 7 April
Building UZA 1, Main Conference Room, 2nd floor, section D

8:45-9:20 Welcome and registration
9:20-10:0 R. Temmerman: How can specialized dictionaries account for variation and the dynamics of understanding?
10:00-10:40 A. Abel: Zur Kombination verschiedener Ansätze beim Design lexikografischer Ressourcen
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 D. Dobrovolskij/A. Sharandin: Wirtschaftslexik im "Neuen Deutsch-Russischen Großwörterbuch" im Vergleich zu anderen deutsch-russischen Wörterbüchern
11:40-12:20 R. Belentschikow: Fachwortschatz in der zweisprachigen Lexikografie - zur Mikrostruktur fachsprachlicher und gemeinsprachlicher Wörterbücher (vorrangig am Beispiel des Sprachenpaars Russisch-Deutsch)
12:20-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:40 M. Lazinski: National Corpus of Polish and its Application in Lexicography
14:40-15:20 C. Herwig: IATE - EU tool for translation-oriented terminology work
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:20 S. Hauptmann: Creation of a dictionary from a publisher's point of view
16:20-17:00 A. Beer/M. Herles: Creation of a dictionary from the editors' point of view

Friday, 8 April
Kolpinghaus, Room XII

9:00-9:40 F. Cermak: Dictionary Compilation: Problems and Principles, Questions and Answers - Notes on Some Basic Questions of Dictionary Making
9:40-10:20 G. Edelmann: Equivalence in bilingual and multilingual specialised dictionaries: The reference to conceptual systems
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:20 S. Nielsen: EFL Text Production Dictionaries for Law Students
11:20-12:00 R. Göke: How to Design a User-Oriented Marketing Dictionary for Students of Business French
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:10 F. Rainer/H. Schnitzer: Spanish economic and business terminology in the "Diccionario de americanismos"
14:10-15:50 G. Budin: Cognitive Corpus-based LSP Lexicography - research and implementation perspectives
14:50-15:10 Closing remarks/summing up (A. Beer)

Schedule (print version)


Organizers:

Axel Beer (Institute for English Business Communication)

Hannes Schnitzer (Institute for Romance Languages)

Michael Betsch (Institute for Slavic Languages)

Elisabeth Peters (Department of Foreign Language Business Communication)



Contact:

Elisabeth Peters

elisabeth.peters@wu.ac.at

Phone: +431 31 226 5117