Modern Lexicography: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780198299516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str.

Henri Bejoint

Opis

Dictionaries of the national language of a country are an essential and quite frequently controversial part of social life and learning. This is an account of how such dictionaries are made, how they are used, and the issues and problems that face their writers and editors. It is wide-ranging, scholarly, yet readable in its approach, addressing the linguistic problems in areas such as distinguishing meanings, writing definition, and providing synonyms.

Recenzje

Addresses many important issues that traditional English lexicography has yet to come to terms with ... much food for thought.

O autorze

Henri Béjoint is a Senior Lecturer in the Départment de Langues Etrangères Appliquées, Université Lyon 2. He is co-editor (with Pierre J. L. Arnaud) of Vocabulary and Applied Linguistics (Macmillan, 1992).