@Article{, title={The Semiotics of Dictionary: A Pragma-Semiotic Perspective سيميائية القاموس: منظور براغما سيميوتيك}, author={Lect. Dr. Hasan Hadi. AbuKrooz}, journal={journal of the college of basic education مجلة كلية التربية الاساسية}, volume={-}, number={وقائع المؤتمر العلمي الافتراضي لقسم اللغة الانكليزية في كلية التربية الاساسية}, pages={994-1007}, year={2020}, abstract={The relationship between Semiotics and dictionaries is a wide topic that has chiefly been investigated and studied from a pure semiotic point of view. Yet, the pragma-semiotic functions that are performed by dictionaries and to which a crucial part of dictionary compiling is attributed, have broadly remained intact. To bridge this gap, the current paper is concerned with the pragma-linguistic task of constructing the interrelationship of a pragma-semiotic approach to the linguistic process of making and compiling dictionaries. This involves identifying the pragma-semiotic dimensions of dictionaries as well as the pragma-semiotic aspects that are designated by the dictionary compilers and linguists. In accordance with these aims, the present study hypothesizes that approaching dictionaries from a pragma-semiotic perspective chiefly relies on looking at dictionary as a lexicographical representation of language that performs some kind of pragmatic communicative function. It further hypothesizes that there are four principal tenets relevant to approaching dictionaries so as to establish the validity of this pragma-semiotic perspective. Investigating this pragma-semiotic approach manifests different findings based on which the paper arrives at a number of conclusions which include: the metalinguistic aspect of the dictionary represents a distinguishing property of dictionaries, and the exhaustive metalinguistic nature which is utilized in dictionaries enhances the idea that the dictionary is an accurate signaling system that pragmatically communicates all the words in the language.

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