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IAS364 - Dictionary Making

2022

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Languages and Linguistics

(LGA320)

Unit Description

Dictionaries are an essential part of language documentation and an invaluable asset in the maintenance, promotion, revitalisation and protection of cultural and linguistic diversity. They act as cultural repositories and serve to elevate the status of language. This unit will enable students to apply the knowledge they have learned to critically appraise existing lexicographic resources, and prepare new ones. Students will gain skills in using a range of software and database sources for dictionary work and language material management, including software created by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people for the use in digitising traditional languages and creating language tools.

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Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Describe and assess a range of lexicographic resources and their applications, with particular attention to dictionaries of endangered Indigenous languages.
2.	Critically assess the macrostructural, microstructural and megastructural elements of dictionary design.
3.	Undertake linguistic data collection, organisation and storage.
4.	Assess databases and a range of computer applications for suitability in producing dictionaries.
5.	Create a dictionary for language studied (which may or may not be an Indigenous language).

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Presentation (15 minutes, 1,000 words).	25%	1,3,4
2.	Dictionary Plan (1,500 words).	35%	2,3,5
3.	Electronic Dictionary (2,000 words).	40%	1,2,3,4,5

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