Although Canada is an officially bilingual country, in which French is stated to be the mother tongue of almost 6.8 million people and English of 17.5 million people (2001 Canadian census), there is not a single general bilingual French-English dictionary on the market of Canadian origin.
This means that Canadians are forced to use European-produced bilingual dictionaries of English and French such as the Collins-Robert and the Oxford-Hachette, which, since they are intended principally for the European and U.S. markets, do not include many elements of English and French that are used in Canada. When these elements---these "Canadianisms"---are included in European dictionaries, their treatment is often unsatisfactory as they may be presented in an unsystematic, sometimes incomplete and even confusing manner.
The Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project aims to remedy this situation by providing Canadians and more particularly Canadian writers, editors, translators and interpreters, as well as advanced second-language learners with a linguistic tool specially designed to meet their particular needs.
This thesis describes the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project and its methodology, as well as the Dictionary itself, its source materials, especially its electronic corpora, and the computer tools used in its compilation. The thesis then discusses the particular features that distinguish Canadian French and Canadian English and summarizes the significant events in the evolution of Canadian unilingual and bilingual lexicography. Finally, examples of regional usage from Canada, North America, France and Britain are presented and their entries in two European dictionaries analyzed and compared with their entries in the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/27345 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Curties, Hazel |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 143 p. |
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