PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - STOFFA, Ján
TI  - THE NEW DICTIONARY OF SLOVAK LANGUAGE AS A SOURCE OF TERMINOLOGICAL INFORMATION
DP  - 2012 Dec 1
TA  - Journal of Technology and Information Education
PG  - 41--46
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
AID - 10.5507/jtie.2012.048
IS  - 1803537X
AB  - The study presents to readers the new dictionary of Slovak language, which can be considered as an important source of terminological information in spite of its general nature and existence of only two first volumes of it. A general characteristic of the dictionary as a source of linguistic information is presented and a special attention is devoted to the dictionary as a source of terminological information. Codification changes of many new terms (neologisms) and term elements are presented in the study, especially of terms adapted from foreign languages. The user can find in it basic information about literacy of terms, their derivations, and enables him/her quickly and reliably to identify vernacular, slang or other substandard and from other causes incorrect expressions which are used as improper equivalents of adequate literary and standard terms. The dictionary integrates in open or hidden form also other special dictionaries, e. g. one-language dictionary, dictionary of foreign words, dictionary of abbreviations, etymological dictionary, dictionary of synonyms, dictionary of homonyms, dictionary of diminutives and that one of opposites. The study points out also many hidden terms quoted as examples in entries of the dictionary.