Lexicography

As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence on the lexicon of Modern Chinese, lexical developments in synonyms, idioms and proverbs in modern times, and lexical developments in contemporary times.

The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most valuable writers in the world' DEBORAH LEVYThe world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own.

This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle's ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work).

This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle's ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work).

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancee.

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages.

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories.

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology.

This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions.

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.

This book focuses on information literacy for the younger generation of learners and library readers.

Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail.

How does a person learn a second language?

This book is the first English monograph to systematically explore Chinese Multiword expressions (MWEs) by applying corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches.

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

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the blonde tigress and the most dangerous woman alive.

Die geballte Power an Allgemeinwissen in einem Buch!

In the early 1970s, three young girls were slain near Rochester, NY, in the so-called Alphabet murders.

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In the midst of gangland activities during the Roaring Twenties, a thief plagued the New York City area by breaking into people's homes and stealing radios, possibly the costliest thing a family could own.

This collection of trivia for true crime fanatics covers mind-blowing details you never knew about Jeffrey Dahmer, BTK, Aileen Wuornos, and others.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish.

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

This book provides an in-depth study of controlled languages used in technical documents from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

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 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).

The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.

The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions.

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.

The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies.

This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years.

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology.

This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich aus synchroner und diachroner Perspektive mit Reanalyse-Prozessen, die unter dem Schlagwort sprachliche Remotivierung zusammengefasst werden können.

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the blonde tigress and the most dangerous woman alive.

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: 'I wonder where that came from'?

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: 'I wonder where that came from'?

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