The relevance of the Sketch Engine software to build Field – Football Expressions Dictionary A relevância da ferramenta Sketch Engine para a construção do Field – dicionário de expressões do futebol Rove Luiza de Oliveira Chishman Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil rove@unisinos.br Aline Nardes dos Santos Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil aline.nardes@gmail.com Diego Spader de Souza Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil dspadersouza@gmail.com João Gabriel Padilha Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil joaogabrielsl@hotmail.com Abstract: This paper aims at presenting the role of the Sketch Engine concordancer in the development of Field – Football Expressions Dictionary, a trilingual lexicographic resource based on the notion of frame and on linguistic corpora. Here, some considerations are presented concerning not only the resources available in the software, but also the analyses conducted through it. In the second section, Frame Semantics, a theory developed by Fillmore (1982, 1985) and its lexicographic applications are presented; in the third section, the Corpus Linguistics methodological potential is introduced by approaching some of its main principles, and some features of the study corpus. The fourth section describes the analyses procedures to identify (i) polysemic words and (ii) collocations in our corpus, through Sketch Engine. The results indicate that the software can be used for various lexicography-related purposes, once it enables DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.23.3.769-796