Lexicography

The first comprehensive and continuous account of all five thousand years of the history of lexicography.

This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography - the study of dictionaries.

As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded.

English Nouns explores the mechanisms by which English nominalizations come to have a variety of readings depending on their syntactic context.

Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use.

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.

A comprehensive and engaging overview of English language dictionary-making from the first monolingual English dictionary to the current day.

Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps.

Since about 4000 years ago, lexicography has been a component of all cultures in which script was known.

Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish.

This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography - the study of dictionaries.

This book is an innovative, formal framework for studying the meanings of words and how their meanings combine.

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change.

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es).

A thorough rule-based exploration of the major phonological phenomena of English, applying lexical, metrical, and prosodic approaches.

Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking.

An transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making sense of experience itself.

This book brings together leading professional and academic lexicographers to report on current developments in the deployment of electronic means in the planning, writing, and dissemination of dictionaries.

By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

What is the meaning of a word?

In a systematic presentation of Johnson's views on language, Johnson on Language: An Introduction addresses the problems inherent in the formation of style, as Johnson saw them, but also contains a detailed discussion of his opinions concerning the proper responsibilities of the lexicographer.

An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society.

How do we find the right word for the job?

A state-of-the-art view of present-day linguistic typology, focussing on universal tendencies across the world''s languages and variation within individual categories.

Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them.

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time.

The classic Greek lexicon which has proved invaluable to generations of Greek Testament students and scholars.

This book introduces a unique methodology to the study of metaphor, integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language.

This book provides a start of defining the uni- and multi-phonational tone systems of geographically-connected dialects under a phonation-pitch tonal model.

This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics.

Este volumen reúne nueve trabajos en los que se discuten, desde diferentes perspectivas y ejemplificados por material lingüístico (español y portugués) de distintas épocas, tanto léxico como (meta-)lexicográfico o textual/discursivo, una serie de problemas, para plantear la efimeridad léxica en su diversidad diastrática, diafásica y diatópica.

A definitive guide to the long tradition of lexicography, this handbook is a rigorous and systematic overview of the field and its recent developments.

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change.

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study.

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties.

This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject.