| Pictorial Illustrations in Persian Monolingual Dictionaries |
| Paper ID : 1031-ICIL |
| Authors: |
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BADRI SADAT SEYED JALALI *1, AZITA ABBASSI2 1No.106, 6/1 Alley, Salmas Square, Yousefabad, Tehran, Iran 2Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Alzahra |
| Abstract: |
| Applying pictorial illustrations aids the lexicographer in defining lemmas and clarifying the meaning of entries. The present study, based on Stein's (1991) categories, looks at the inclusion of pictorial illustrations in three Persian monolingual dictionaries, including Amid Persian Dictionary, Mo'een Persian Dictionary, and Sokhan Comprehensive Dictionary. This corpus based analytic survey is done to determine which items are mostly illustrated, considering the semantic field and the part of speech of illustrated lemmas, as well as visual characteristics of pictures and their place of insertion. The other purpose of this paper is to investigate which methods can improve the efficiency of pictorial illustrations in dictionaries. The results of this survey indicate that domestic and contextualized pictures along with a proper reference to their headwords can enhance the communicative function of Persian monolingual dictionaries. It is also revealed that the co-reference of illustrations and headwords are fulfilled via the juxtaposition of pictures to the dictionary entries or through some verbal support that relates illustrations to the respective lemma. In all three mentioned Persian dictionaries, concrete nouns are the most illustrated headwords. |
| Keywords: |
| lexicography, monolingual dictionary, pictorial illustrations, Amid Persian Dictionary , Mo'een Persian Dictionary, Sokhan Comprehensive Dictionary |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Oral Presentation) |