Autore
Cacchiani, Silvia

Titolo
Children's Dictionaries as a Form of Edutainment? User-orientation, Engagement and Proximity for Learning
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 183 - Pagina finale: 200

This paper addresses the construction of ideational, interpersonal andtextual meanings (Halliday 1985) in children’s dictionaries that are primarilya form of edutainment (Buckingham and Scanlon 2002). Working againstthe background of research into multimodal lexicography (Lew 2010;Chan 2011; Liu 2015; 2017) in the electronic dictionary age (De Schryver2003; Tarp 2008; Granger 2012), I shall concentrate on the interplay ofcontent, form and composition space in the Oxford Children’s Dictionary (2015) and the Oxford Illustrated Children’s Dictionary (2018) vis-à-vis otherpaper dictionaries within the family. As will be seen, joint compositionsof intentionally co-present text and images interact in diverse ways andto different extents in the interest of user-orientation on the contentlevel, guidance, and user-engagement and proximity on the textual andinterpersonal levels.



SICI: 1824-3967(2020)1<183:CDAAFO>2.0.ZU;2-Q
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