Awards

• Shortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2002.
• Winner of Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2000.

Overview

'I would recommend every teacher of English to read this book' -Enn Veldi, Estonian Association of English Teachers (EATE) NewsletterThis is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how developments in lexical and grammatical theory, especially in the field of phraseological analysis, crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries. He provides a critical account of the corpus-based research at the heart of contemporary dictionary compilation.

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I would recommend every teacher of English to read this book Enn Veldi, Estonian Association of English Teachers (EATE) Newsletter

`Review from previous edition I would recommend every teacher of English to read this book' Enn Veldi, Estonian Association of English Teachers (EATE) Newsletter, Issue 17, May 2000

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A. P. Cowie is Honorary Reader in Lexicography at the School of English, University of Leeds. He originally trained as an EFL teacher in London, and taught English in Nigeria before becoming an English language specialist at the British Council. A. P. Cowie was a co-editor of the third edition and chief editor of the fourth edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, and is currently editor of the International Journal of Lexicography, published by Oxford University Press.

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