CYIL vol. 16 (2025)

CYIL 16 (2025) HOW MANY DICTIONARIES DO THEY NEED IN THE HAGUE? Table 2. Most Frequently Cited Dictionaries in the ICJ decisions corpus (ICJ.23.en)

Dictionary

Freq.

Texts

Oxford English Dictionary**

33

27

Dictionnaire de la terminologie du droit international, Dictionary of International Legal Terminology (Basdevant)

17

17

Concise Oxford Dictionary, Concise Oxford English Dictionary**

13 13 9*

12 11

Webster, Merriam-Webster dictionary Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law

9 5 5 4 5 2 2 2 2

Dictionnaire de droit international public (Salmon)

7 7 5 5 3 3 2

Dictionnaire de la langue française, Dictionnaire Robert, Dictionnaires Le Robert

Black’s Law Dictionary

Vocabulaire juridique (Cornu)

Dictionnaire philosophique (Voltaire)

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms Shorter Oxford Dictionary, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary**

Ballantine’s Law Dictionary Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

2* 2*

2 Source: Author. * indicates that the occurrence appears in identical texts issued in related proceedings. ** indicates that the entries may refer to the same dictionary.

Figure 2. Collocations of dictionar* (L3–R1) in in the ICJ decisions corpus (ICJ.23.en)

Source: Author. Created in LancBox X, GraphColl. Each node represents a collocate. The size of the circle indicates its frequency and the colour reflecting the strength of its association with the node word. The proximity of nodes to the centre reflects the degree of collocational strength.

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