How to make a dictionary- 16.10.07

First lecture:



What am I expeceting??

Actually I don´t really expect something special, because everything is new, and so I don´t know anything, about this course. But it is the first lecture, so I think, we will discuss some organisational things.



What we´ve done:

Mr. Gibbon gave us an short overview about the topics and all the other information we need, to survive this class. We met our new tutors and Mr. Gibbon told us, that we have to create a web-portfolio.

Than we got to know, why a web-portfolio is helpful and how to create one.

Further we talked about texts and hypertexts and at the end of the lecture we got a QUIZ and a task, we have to do for next week.

By the way, Mr. Gibbon told us, that he will always make Quizzes,that we have to answer and which should belong to our web-portfolios.



So, here is my first one:





QUIZ:


What is text linguistics?

Text Linguistics is the analysing of any kind of text and interpret it.


What is a website?

A website is a huge document wich is online. It could be read by everybody at any time and place.


What is a hypertext?

A hypertext is a document which is linked with others of its kind.E.g. google, homepages of professors, amazon,...


What is a text? What are its main properties?
A text consits of words and structures. It is any kind of written material.Its main properties are meaning, formulation and appearance.



How do these properties relate to the world/ to the mind?
To the mind : The properties are some kind of code wich is in your head like a higher-leveled structure of s.th.

To the world : They are for everybody accessable. You can absorb them actively.


TASK:


defining "definition"


->A defintion is a statement of meaning of a word or a word group, a sign or a symbol. It is a statement expressing the essential nature of something.The word "definition" is dated from the Middel English (diffinicoun), the Anglo-French and from Latin (definitio).