Verbete impresso ou verbete digital? Eis a questão

Abstract

This article argues about the possible course of reelaboration of the genre entry of the print medium to digital. Such a consideration takes into account precepts of metalexicography, the concept of discursive colony (HOEY, 2001), as well as the theoretical-methodological constructs of Digital Hypertext Theory. From the contrastive analysis of printed dictionaries and electronic dictionaries online, essentially mediostructural, we outline, based on the current evidence, that it seems a little early to define that the genre digital entry is a reworking of the printed entry. In fact, it is a process of automation of the consultation that, for disrespecting certain principles of lexicography, has contributed more to the failure of the demand of the consultants than the opposite, especially in relation to students.