GLOBALEX Workshop on New Word Lexicography

Bloomington, May 2019

Dr. Kathrin Kunkel-Razum

Dictionary Managing Editor, Duden Berlin

Table of Contents

Who or what is Duden?

New words for the Duden! Criteria and reproaches

Let‘s talk about… new sources and the www

Who or what is Duden?

„Urduden“

1880

Entire orthographic Dictionary of the German language

Who or what is Duden?

Who or what is Duden?

Dictionary

Authority

Brand

DUDEN – Die deutsche

Rechtschreibung

27. ed., 2017

ca. 145.000 lemmata

5.000 newly added

No. 1 standard

reference dictionary

for the German

language

New words for the Duden!

wiktionary.org/André Karwath

New words for the Duden!

27th/2017:

some neologisms:

25th/2009:

26th/2013:

Ampelfrau

tindern

some new words from the 27th edition 2017:

New words for the Duden!weitere Wörter / Folie aus Melanies Vortrag

New words for the Duden!

appr. 5000 newly added lemmata in every new edition of

the Rechtschreibduden

New words for the Duden!

Frequency

Duration

Acceptance

Criteria:

New words for the Duden!

decisions of the editorial staff

sources and corpora

Criteria:

New words for the Duden!

currently contains 5,2 Billion tokens

newspapers and magazines

fiction

functional texts

The Duden Corpus

New words for the Duden!

new lexikal units: prokrastinieren

new meanings of already recorded words:

dampfen

new idioms

lexems/meanings/idioms that are older but didn‘t

find their way into Duden: Bergisch Gladbach

those who are older but the frequency has

increased now: Kopfkino

proper names: names of chancellors and Federal

Presidents

new spelling variations: Co-Autor vs. Coautor

new words/meanings

additional 100.000 lemmata to the print version of the

Rechtschreibduden

Only on Duden Online : e.g. Hundenahrung (engl. “dog food”) and

fünftes (“fifth”), but also new words like Lasten[fahr]rad

New words for the Duden!

Duden online:

Dear obsolete words …

New words for the Duden!

New words for the Duden!

13/1947:

fremdrassig

Hitlergruß

Schutzstaffel

Volksschädlin

g

18/1980 (w),

14/1951 (e):

Rassenhygien

e

10/1929: naszieren,

Penny-a-liner, Table-

Tennis, Logotype

12/1941:

Nachmittagsruhe,

schampuen

16/1961: Centweight

19/1986 (w): Native

25/2009: verschimpfieren

Let‘s discuss:

Based on which corpora can and should neologisms be identified and edited?

What does it mean: documenting the “contemporary language use”?

Let‘s talk about… new sources and the www