Lexicography: An Introduction provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential reference works. Howard Jackson analyses a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and learners’ dictionaries, including those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource.
This book is intended to provide ''a comprehensive and comparative introduction to the standardization processes of the Germanic languages''; it thus presents an exercise in ''comparative standardology'' (p. 1). The editors of the present volume, Ana Deumert (Monash University, Melbourne) and Wim Vandenbussche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/FWO-Vlaanderen), have brought together sixteen contributions on Germanic languages written by authoritative scholars.
An Introduction to Early Modern English, helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core but also one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. The volume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect--its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation--and on its dialectal origins.
Completely revised and updated in its Second Edition, Language and Reality provides students, philosophers and cognitive scientists with a lucid and provocative introduction to the philosophy of language.
Product Description As crime continues to concern politicians, public and media alike, the study of criminology has boomed. Providing an international and comparative introduction to the discipline, Criminology: The Basics is an accessible guide to theoretical and practical approaches to the phenomena of crime.
