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To define and inform : an analysis of information provided in dictionaries used by learners of English in China and Denmark / by Saihong Li Rasmussen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li Rasmussen, Saihong, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Lexicography.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching--Chinese speakers.
- English language--Study and teaching--Danish speakers.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""To Inform and Define: An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark"" presents a masterly synthesis of lexicographical theory in relation to bilingual and learner's dictionaries and advances a radical argument about how such dictionaries are used and how they should be improved for the convenience of students. By tracing the history of the terms 'semantic' and 'pragmatic' in linguistics and philosophy, Saihong Li shows the weakness of an...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; LISTS OF TABLES; LISTS OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART TWO; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; APPENDIX 3; APPENDIX 4; APPENDIX 5; APPENDIX 6
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-266).
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14131-0
- 1-4438-2250-7
- 9786613141316
- OCLC:
- 830167892
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