Per una terminologia condivisa dei dizionari elettronici/digitali

Abstract

The contribution analyses the history of the phrases electronic dictionary and digital dictionary with the aim of identifying a shared specialised terminology. It also considers other naming proposals in their relation to the specific typologies, from the point of view of their genesis (first generation or primary if dictionaries are realised directly as computer tools, second generation or secondary if designed as paper-based tools and only subsequently computerised), their nature (first level if computerisation relates only to the text, second level if it also concerns the structure of the entry and thus transforms the dictionary into a real database), and the mode of consultation (introducing the concept of dynamic dictionary). Collaterally, the contribution outlines a history of computer lexicography, with more details on the first realisations.