Meaning-Text Theory and its Possibilities of Application to Spanish Learner’s Dictionaries

• Autor(a) principal: Borba, Laura Campos de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1118
• topic: Pedagogical lexicography; Spanish learner’s dictionaries; Meaning-Text theory; Collocations; Lexical functions’ application; Lexicografia pedagógica; Dicionários de aprendizes de espanhol; Teoria Sentido-Texto; Colocações; Adaptação das funções lexicais

Foreign language learners need reliable language tools that could describe language in use on the one hand and fulfill their needs on the other hand. Learner’s dictionaries are tools compiled to assist this user profile on understanding and producing language. Collocations figure in the set of major linguistic phenomena related to production tasks. This type of combinatory pattern demands better descriptions in many learner’s dictionaries, but particularly on Spanish learner’s dictionaries (SLDs) due to their poor and baddescription. This paper aims to explore the possibility to employ the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) to describe collocations in SLDs. First, we introduce general MTT postulates. Secondly, we list and analyze collocations presented by SLDs and monolingual Spanish dictionaries and compare this information with corpus data. Finally, we apply MTT to describe the set of collocations founded and propose an application of the lexical functions’ formalization. In conclusion, MTT offers a very useful method to describe collocations. The next step of this research is to present linguistic data in an even friendly way for the learner.