Author: John Considine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: making, heritage, lexicography, europe, modern, dictionaries
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 0521886740
ISBN-13: 9780521886741

Dictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, published and used, has much to tell us about the language and the culture of the past. This monumental work of scholarship draws on published and archival material to survey a wide range of dictionaries of western European languages (including English, German, Latin and Greek) published between the early sixteenth and mid -seventeenth centuries. John Considine establishes a powerful model for the social and intellectual history of lexicography by examining dictionaries both as imaginative texts an

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: Arthur Mettinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, lexicography, lexicology, oxford, english, semantic, opposition, aspects
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1994-03-24
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0198242697
ISBN-13: 9780198242697

Antonymy is recognized as an important type of meaning relation in natural language, yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of forty-three contemporary English-language novels, Mettinger isolates ten syntactic frames within which antonyms are regularly found: these serve as a useful heuristic tool for eliciting opposites from texts. Arguing that there are two kinds of antonyms--systematic and non-systematic opposites--he analyzes numerous pairs of antonyms, highlighting an important semantic relationship.

Author: Maria Carmen Campoy Cubillo
Publisher: Universitat Jaume I
Keywords: learning, context, language, foreign, mediated, lexicography, computer
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 8480214732
ISBN-13: 9788480214735

Author: Rosamund Moon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, studies, lexicography, lexicology, approach, based, expressions, idioms, english, corpus, fixed
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-06-04
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 019823614X
ISBN-13: 9780198236146

This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Moon’s central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered in the context of the texts in which they occur. She examines several thousand fixed expressions and how they are being used in current English. She argues that examination of the corpus raises questions about many received ideas on fixed expressions and idioms, and suggests that new, use-centered, models are required.

Authors:Ladislav Zgusta, Franz J. Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann,
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: communication, science, linguistics, handbooks, encyclopedia, lexicography, international
Number of Pages: 1017
Published: 1991-12
List price: $655.00
ISBN-10: 3110124211
ISBN-13: 9783110124217

Author: Graham D. Caie; Carole Hough; IrenA Wotherspoon (
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: honour, christian, kay, costerus, semantics, lexicology, words, essays, lexicography, power
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-12-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9042021217
ISBN-13: 9789042021211

List of Contents: Introduction C. P. BIGGAM: Old English colour lexemes used of textiles in Anglo-Saxon England Julie COLEMAN: Slang terms for money: a historical thesaurus Fiona DOUGLAS and John CORBETT: ’Huv a wee seat, hen’: evaluative terms in Scots Philip DURKIN: Lexical splits and mergers: some difficult cases for the OED Andreas FISCHER: Of ’faederan’ and ’eamas’: avuncularity in Old English Roger LASS and Margaret LAING: $ho:fian{*}/vK2: a LAEME-based lexical study Caroline MACAFEE: The rhyme potential of Scots Terttu NEVALAINEN and He