O componente medioestrutural do minidicionário escolar Caldas Aulete

Abstract

Dictionaries are characterized, among other things, by its essentially didactic character (PONTES, 2009). These books give support to find new words and their meanings, their spellings, their accents, their contexts of use, and its synonyms and its antonyms, for example. As the field of a lexicon is the basic criteria for learning a language, these books become indispensable tools in any classroom language, whether native or foreign. From this perspective, knowledge of the structures that make up the dictionary can help to improve the usage of the lexicographical works, giving the chance to the asker to do a word search, or any other information they would need, more efficiently and quickly. The structural levels in the dictionary are: megastructure, macrostructure, microstructure and medioestrutura (PONTES, 2009). This paper aims to define, to classify and to exemplify one of the four structural levels of the dictionaries: the medioestrutura, which is responsible for the dialogue between the dictionary and other structures between the parties that make up the microstructure. Our paper is based on Pedagogical Lexicography and Metalexicography theoretical as Damim (2005), Heinrich (2007), Pontes (2009) and Welker (2004). The dictionary that will be analyzed is: Caldas Aulete: Mini Dictionary of Contemporary Portuguese (AULETE, 2004). This research was developed under the guidance of Professor. Dr. Antonio Luciano Pontes from Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística Aplicada (PosLa), Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) as part of the Grupo de Pesquisa Lexicografia, Terminologia e Ensino (LETENS).