Lexicography books

This book studies the history of the Concise Oxford Dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from...  Read More >>

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Investigates the European debate on culture and identity by pointing to those uses of language that shape the image...  Read More >>

Lexicographer is one whose area of study is the dictionary. * Though targeted at the young people of Saint Lucia...  Read More >>

From the Preface. IN the treatment of Phonetics and Morphology in this work, so many words are cited along with...  Read More >>

From the PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. THOSE who have impartially followed the development of comparative philology...  Read More >>

From the TRANSLATORS' PREFACE. IN the two years that haye followed the translation of the First Volume of the Grundriss...  Read More >>

From the TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. In this volume I have used, though sparingly, the terms suggested in the preface...  Read More >>

From the PREFACE. IN giving up my first plan, I was influenced not a little by my belief, that from a comprehensive...  Read More >>

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This volume provides a detailed overview of the current state of research in diachronic Romance lexicography, a...  Read More >>

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This volume unites papers delivered at the Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3)...  Read More >>

The book brings together current research on the description of English using a range of corpora. It consists of...  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume explore topics situated in three major thematic areas: metaphorical and metonymic...  Read More >>

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This book is an update on the Function Theory of Lexicography that offers convincing arguments on the independent...  Read More >>

A comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated history of Arabic lexicography, this book examines the aims,...  Read More >>

Until now, there has been little research into the use of online dictionaries despite expanding markets: both academic...  Read More >>

The legendary ""Oxford English Dictionary"" (OED) contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations...  Read More >>

¿Quién no ha insultado nunca a nadie? ¿Quién no se ha quedado dudando a la hora de elegir el insulto más adecuado...  Read More >>

Die Kommunikation in der Touristik hat in der germanistischen Forschung bislang vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung...  Read More >>

Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary became the leading work of its kind. Gabriele Stein examines its principles,...  Read More >>