Aspectos de fonética em dicionários impressos: algumas considerações no contexto do alemão como língua estrangeira

Abstract

In this article, 11 printed dictionaries of the German-Portuguese language pair will be analyzed in order to examine how their pronunciation guides, phonetic transcriptions and other elements that help, in a practical way, in the learning of German pronunciation are presented. As a control group, we rely on two dictionaries specialized in German phonetics. Our analysis was by sampling, given the extent of the research universe. As far as the methodology is concerned, we chose to analyze the 11 dictionaries in chronological order, thus allowing a view of the evolution of pronunciation guides. Our final conclusions point out, for example, that most of the dictionaries analyzed present serious problems in their pronunciation guides and in the phonetic transcription of the listed entries.