Bilingualised LSP dictionary : gender violence

Abstract

Lexicography has not been seen as a discipline itself. There have been so many discussions about it and the opinions differ from each other. Within this discipline, dictionaries are of great importance in the field. They are seen as reference tools. This project includes the presentation of a bilingualised LSP dictionary on Gender Violence. Some studies state that bilingualised dictionaries are the most effective ones, in front of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. However, the effectiveness of one or another depends on the needs of the user. The objective of this paper is to present an alleged implementation of the already mentioned LSP dictionary and its importance in language teaching and learning. The dictionary is mainly addressed to law students at a university level, however, psychology and crimonolohy students could also benefit from it. The dictionary may be used as an auxiliary tool that can be accesed during the degree studies as well as for future professional use. Dictionaries help users in both comprehension and production; it helps them, for instance, to accurately understand and interpret correctly specific-field texts such as formal reports or criminal records, as well as to facilitate the task of producing formal speeches and to adequately choose the specific words that suit the specific context.