English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History (Oxford Studies in Lexicography & Lexicology)

by A . P . Cowie (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1999

  $242.61

  This is a history of dictionaries, from their origins to the computerized compilations of the present. Chapters describe the historical sequence over some 60 years, these alternate with chapters dealing with phraseology, computers and corpus linguistics, and research into dictionary users and uses.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $52.02

  This is a history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their origins in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s, to the computerized compilations of the present. Initially research-driven, the dictionary has become user-driven.