Review article

On picture dictionaries

Sanja Brbora ; Sveučilišna knjižnica u Splitu, Split

Abstract

The picture dictionary is a special type of dictionary involving two different sign systems -natural language and picture (the iconic system). In a wider, semiological sense, therefore, every picture dictionary can be considered to be bilingual. However, many picture dictionaries are bilingual in the narrow sense, while their third dimension facilitates the contrasting of two linguistic system in a less ambiguous way. The paper discusses the aim and conceptual organization of picture dictionaries, as well as the relationship between the word and the picture, semantic relations and some advantages and limitations of this type of dictionaries.

Keywords

picture dictionaries; bilingual dictionaries; sign systems

Hrčak ID:

173148

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173148

Publication date:

16.12.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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