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This volume draws together highly detailed studies of how dictionaries are used by different types of users, from school students to senior professors, working with a foreign ...

In this book, the development of the English dictionary is examined, along with the kinds of dictionary available, the range of information they contain, factors affecting ...

This work goes back to the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines what constitutes a word, with a discussion of words ...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. Each companion is a comprehensive reference resource featuring an ...

How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English ...