Lexicography

'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN'Gyles Brandreth'A TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WORD SLEU...

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dic...

Les recherches sur les marqueurs discursifs ont connu un extraordinaire essor ces dernières décennies. Le présent ouvrage les aborde dans leur dime...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes geben Auskunft, wie Forschung und Lehre am Institut für Translationswissenschaft (INTRAWI) aufgestellt sind, um mit der ...

Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as god be with you, that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for water of l...

Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similari...

This book focuses on scientific terminology and phraseology in research papers in the domains of new technologies which remain to be highly special...

This is a systematic study of Matteo Riccis (1552610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China...

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and...

The series Perspectives on the Linguistics of Ancient Languages publishes research papers  presented at the annual meetings of the International Sy...

This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabrés articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, m...

A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans ...

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of...

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang an...

The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within the ...

A delightBooklistA richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing ...

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory. It examines how ...

Die Toponomastik weist eine traditionsreiche Geschichte auf, hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten jedoch eine Marginalisierung innerhalb der germanistisc...

er Schwerpunkt des Bandes 51 liegt auf der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte, die sich thematisch und inhaltlich unterscheiden. Dazu gehören ...

This volume takes stock of the current state of the historical lexicography of German, sounding out the prospects for future research. It focuses ...

The trusted paperback English dictionary and thesaurus for everyday use. The perfect word reference to broaden your knowledge of English,...

The trusted paperback English dictionary and thesaurus for everyday use. The perfect word reference to broaden your knowledge of English,...

A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects-configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to other...

Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in acad...