설명결합사전의 어휘의미 기술

Abstract

This paper will explore and evaluate the «Lexicographic Definition» in the Explicative and Combinatory Dictionary(ECD), in particular, focusing on its methodology of description and representation of lexical meaning. Lexical meaning is one of the most important features of a linguistic dictionary, however, due to its inherent nature, its description and representation in a dictionary precipitates many problems. The crux of the problem is that each word has meanings behind its form and shows semantically continuous variations when combined with other words and phrases. A lexicographer must then determine the full content of the lexical meaning and extract its components, and separate every meaning which is linguistically distinguished from other variations. Moreover, a good dictionary needs and an elaborate methodology for the theoretically and practically adequate representation of the meaning. The ECD, based on the Meaning-Text Model, presents comprehensive rules and criterion addressing precisely these problems. These rules and criterion are the minimal(fundamental) conditions necessary for the coherent representation of full lexical meaning. Furthermore, the ECD represents Lexicographic Definitions in a concise, yet natural(accessible) language. Its definitions describes denotational meaning which are composed of situational information of the sentences usage. This meaning has an additional functional dimension in that its content and component explain and predict the full range of word behavior in any given circumstances. The direct result of this research can be applied to Korean dictionaries and used to improve their semantic descriptions and representations.