LEXICOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY READING GROUP

The meeting will take place on Thursday, 22^nd November 2007 at 5 pm, room 102A.

The speaker will be Marta Grochocka.

The usefulness of the definitions of abstract

nouns in OALD7 and NODE

This meeting aims at presenting the results of an empirical study designed to examine the usefulness of the definitions of abstract nouns in a pedagogical dictionary and a native-speaker dictionary. The objects of comparison are OALD7 and NODE. Furthermore, an attempt will be made to set out the possible reasons for the final outcome of the study. Emphasis will also be placed on the notion of definition as well as different types of lexicographic definition. A secondary aim of the discussion is to explore the class of abstract nouns by providing a definition thereof and discussing the structure of the class.