Lexicography

This work explores the lexical richness of over 100 world languages and proposes solutions for instances of imperfect equivalence between them.

Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919.

El objeto de estudio de este libro es de gran actualidad.

In diesem Buch geht es um die grundlegende Frage, wie Sprachverstehen und Situationsverstehen zusammenwirken.

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.

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and English for specific Purposes.

A systematic exposition of Reinhart''s Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments.

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language.

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.

How can insights from Construction Grammar (CxG) be applied to foreign language learning (FLL) and foreign language teaching (FLT)?

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

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

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication.

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

Lexicography is one of the oldest linguistic sub-disciplines and began to compile extensive corpora early on as the basis for dictionary work.

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain''s internal construction process.

A new edition of this textbook discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages.

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

Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919.