Research into dictionary use by Polish learners of English: Some methodological considerations (original) (raw)

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2006

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The call for research on dictionary use has been present in the literature on the subject for a few decades now. The user perspective in lexicography goes back to the early 1960s and Barnhart's (1962: 161) statement that “[i] t is the function of a popular dictionary to answer the questions that the user of the dictionary asks, and dictionaries on the commercial market will be successful in proportion to the extent to which they answer these questions to the buyer”.