Words and Their Meaning

Howard Jackson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

1988
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-582-29154-6 (ISBN)

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An examination of the rise of the English dictionary, the kinds of dictionary available, the range of information they contain, factors affecting their usage and public attitudes towards them. The advantages of a thesaurus-like approach over the traditional format are discussed.

In this book, the development of the English dictionary is examined, along with the kinds of dictionary available, the range of information they contain, factors affecting their usage, and public attitudes towards them. As well as an descriptive analysis of word meaning, the author considers whether a thematic, thesaurus-like presentation might be more suited than the traditional alphabetical format to the description of words and their meaning.

Howard Jackson

1. What is a word?
2. Where did English words come from?
3. Dictionaries: the repositories of words
4. Words and the world
5. Words and words
6. Analysing word meanings
7. Meaning from combinations
8. Why dictionaries?
9. How to define a word
10. More than meaning
11. Different dictionaries
12. Especially for the learner
13. Who uses a dictionary for what?
14. Not alphabetical
15. The craft of lexicography
16. Lexicology, lexicography and semantics

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.10.1988
Reihe/Serie	Learning About Language
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	214 x 139 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
ISBN-10	0-582-29154-2 / 0582291542
ISBN-13	978-0-582-29154-6 / 9780582291546
Zustand	Neuware