Lexicography

This book offers a unique perspective on creativity in an educational environment where there is a relative dearth of literature on this subject.

What are words?

This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings.

This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.

This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse.

This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language.

The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume.

A carefully selected collection of essays by the most renowned specialist in terminology in France, now published in English.

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.

Adjectives are the third most important class of words (after verbs and nouns), yet this is the first book-length study in English of this central grammatical category.

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language.

An illustrated compendium of the meanings of street-names in the city of Cambridge, first published in 2000.

This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners' awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can enhance the learners' contextual lexical inferencing competence (CLIC).

What is the meaning of a word?

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs.

Rund 700 Neologismen werden in diesem ersten größeren Neologismenwörterbuch für das Deutsche dargestellt.

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey's Lexical Priming - A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world.