Cognitive Interpretation of Dictionary Users'Definitions and Its Enlightenment for Lexicography
Under the cognitive perspective,the definition process is the cognitive processing one of defin-ers.Letting the dictionary users participate in the definition and analyzing the users'definition texts can help the lexicographers understand the users'cognitive characteristics.There are similarities and differences of the definition methods that the users and the experts employ.Most experts and users employ"equal and close form"to define such abstract words as"if(如果)","according to(按照)".All experts use"specific difference+category+specific difference"to define"apple(苹果)",while the users mostly choose"catego-ry+specific difference".The experts and users employ different numbers of entry senses.The users'defini-tions are influenced by the cognitive laws such as iconicity,categorization and construal.Although they have certain arbitrariness,the presented motivation has a great enlightening significance for lexicography.
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