In:Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives
Edited by Richard Smith and Tim Giesler
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 20] 2023
► pp. 43–58
Chapter 3Teaching phraseology in the 19th century
John Charles Tarver’s Royal phraseological English–French, French–English dictionary
Published online: 27 June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.20.03nuc
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.20.03nuc
Abstract
Phraseology has long been associated with
lexicography (Knappe,
2004), especially with bilingual dictionaries, which have
traditionally had a didactic aspect (Moon, 2000). In the 19th century, it was
considered a fundamental area of concern in teaching and learning a
foreign language and the Royal phraseological
English–French, French–English dictionary (Tarver, Vol.
1, 1845; Vol. 2, 1849) addressed it by
recording “an extensive phraseology to illustrate the proper manner
of using the words” (1845, p. 7), with a novel lexicological,
lexicographical and pedagogical approach. This chapter shows that
Tarver’s dictionary innovates in relation to the few previous,
comparable lexicographical works, and that it foreshadows later,
especially 20th-century, approaches to the inclusion and treatment
for didactic purposes of word combinations in English
general-purpose and specialized learner dictionaries.
Article outline
- Introduction
- The RPD: Background, planning and description
- Analysis of selected entries
- English to abandon
- French abandonner
- English will
- French volonté
- French vouloir
- Main findings
- Concluding remarks
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