Words and Their Meaning

ISBN-13: 9781138413917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Howard Jackson

Opis

An examination of the rise of the English dictionary, the kinds of dictionary available, the range of information they contain, factors affecting their usage and public attitudes towards them. The advantages of a thesaurus-like approach over the traditional format are discussed.

Spis treści

1. What is a word?2. Where did English words come from?3. Dictionaries: the repositories of words4. Words and the world5. Words and words6. Analysing word meanings7. Meaning from combinations8. Why dictionaries?9. How to define a word10. More than meaning11. Different dictionaries12. Especially for the learner13. Who uses a dictionary for what?14. Not alphabetical15. The craft of lexicography16. Lexicology, lexicography and semantics

O autorze

Howard Jackson