Author: A. P. Cowie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: volume, dictionaries, purpose, specialized, general, oxford, english, lexicography, history
Number of Pages: 1312
Published: 2009-01-29
List price: $295.00
ISBN-10: 0199285624
ISBN-13: 9780199285624

These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and

Author: J.M.G. Cowie
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: materials, modern, physics, chemistry, polymers
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1991-06-01
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0748740732
ISBN-13: 9780748740734

This text follows a broad sequence of preparation, characterization, physical and mechanical properties and structure-property relations. Polymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Second Edition covers several methods of polymerization, properties, and advanced applications such as liquid crystals and polymers used in the electronics industry. Topics also include Step-Growth, Free Radical Addition, and Ionic Polymerization; Copolymerization; Polymer Stereochemistry and Characterization; Structure-Property Relationship; Polymer Liquid Crystals; and Polymers for the Electronics Indust

Author: A. P. Cowie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, lexicography, lexicology, oxford, history, dictionaries, foreign, learners, english
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-10-03
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199250847
ISBN-13: 9780199250844

This 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 crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries.

Author: A. P. Cowie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, lexicography, lexicology, oxford, applications, theory, analysis, phraseology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-04-05
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0198299648
ISBN-13: 9780198299646

Over the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. This book is made up of authoritative contributions from leading specialists who examine the increasingly crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult language use. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject to be published in English.

Author: A. P. Cowie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, lexicography, lexicology, oxford, applications, theory, analysis, phraseology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-12-17
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0198294255
ISBN-13: 9780198294252

Over the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. This book is made up of authoritative contributions from leading specialists who examine the increasingly crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult language use. This book is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject to be published in English.

Author: Fiona Cowie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: series, mind, philosophy, reconsidered, nativism
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-06-17
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195159780
ISBN-13: 9780195159783

This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn: "native" to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view is mistaken, demonstrating that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two quite different--and probably inconsistent--theses about the mind. Unlike empiricists, who postulate domain-neutral learning strategies, nativists insist that some learning tasks require special kinds of skills, and that these skills are hard-wired into our brains at birth

Author: Peter Cowie
Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Company
Keywords: anthology, film, filmography, world
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 1977-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0498015653
ISBN-13: 9780498015656