Lexicographical contextualization and personalization : a new perspective

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dc.contributor.authorTarp, Svenen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorGouws, Rufusen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-11T10:19:17Z
dc.date.available2019-12-11T10:19:17Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCITATION: Tarp, S. & Gouws, R. 2019. Lexicographical contextualization and personalization : a new perspective. Lexikos, 29:250-268, doi:10.5788/29-1-1520.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractContextualization, i.e. to provide solutions to users' information needs directly in the situation or context where these needs occur, played a significant role in the work of the Greek scribes who inserted glosses into manuscript copies of the works of Homer and other earlier writers in order to explain obsolete and unusual words. After the invention of the glossary, a schism developed within lexicography. On the one hand, there was the new compilation of glossaries and dictionaries of a still more complex and sophisticated nature. On the other hand, there was the traditional insertion of glosses into manuscript copies of books from previous periods. Although the advent of dictionaries diminished the use of contextualization procedures they were still adhered to in some publications. This paper discusses the occurrence of contextualization and personalization procedures in different eras and environments and it is shown how these procedures also introduced a lexicographic practice to some extra-dictionary environments. The importance of contextualization and personalization in modern-day lexicography is stressed. Lexicographers often have had unfulfilled dreams of new possibilities within the digital environment. However, the lack of adequate technology has made their dreams impossible – at that stage. Today new technologies and collaboration between lexicography and information science offer numerous new challenges that can be met by lexicographers. It is shown how lexicographical products being integrated into information tools little by little are closing the more than two thousand year old schism in European lexicography, i.e. reuniting contextualization and personalization. Lexicographers, the modern-day scribes, have to endeavour to make the seemingly impossible possible.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1520
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent19 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTarp, S. & Gouws, R. 2019. Lexicographical contextualization and personalization : a new perspective. Lexikos, 29:250-268, doi:10.5788/29-1-1520en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2224-0039 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1684-4904 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5788/29-1-1520
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107340
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherBureau of the WATen_ZA
dc.rights.holderBureau of the WATen_ZA
dc.subjectContextualizationen_ZA
dc.subjectLexicographyen_ZA
dc.subjectContextualization and personalization proceduresen_ZA
dc.subjectLexicographical personalizationen_ZA
dc.subjectExtra-dictionary environmentsen_ZA
dc.subjectInformation toolsen_ZA
dc.titleLexicographical contextualization and personalization : a new perspectiveen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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