Solving Language Problems
From General to Applied Linguistics
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
224 pages
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8-7/10 x 5-4/5
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© 1996
The combination of a clearly written survey of the key areas in linguistics, together with analysis of recent problem-based developments in the field, make this book the ideal introduction to applied linguistic studies. There is also a detailed bibliography and a terminological index.
Subjects covered:
- semantics
- grammar
- phonetics and phonology
- discourse
- psycholinguistics
- sociolinguistics
- language teaching and testing
- lexicography
- computers in applied linguistics
This book will be useful to undergraduates, and their professors, in the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. It also provides a straightforward guide to the subject for postgraduates studying linguistics as part of courses in English and modern languages; psychology; lexicography; and computer science.
Subjects covered:
- semantics
- grammar
- phonetics and phonology
- discourse
- psycholinguistics
- sociolinguistics
- language teaching and testing
- lexicography
- computers in applied linguistics
This book will be useful to undergraduates, and their professors, in the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. It also provides a straightforward guide to the subject for postgraduates studying linguistics as part of courses in English and modern languages; psychology; lexicography; and computer science.
The Journal of Indo-European Studies
“This book combines an analysis of current problem-based issues with a reliable survey of the basic points in modern linguistics, making it a valuable guide in applied linguistics.” –The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1998
Contents
1. The Character of the Earliest English Dictionaries
2. Figurative Words: Modern Practice and the Origins of a Labelling Tradition
3. Common Words: John Kersey and the First General Dictionary of English
4. Dialect Words in General Dictionaries
5. Old Words: Defining Obsolescence
6. Literary Words: Blount's Glossographia and Sir Thomas Browne
7. Setting up a New Bilingual Vernacular Dictionary: Henry Hexham (1647)
8. Style Markers: Early Bilingual Dictionaries and English Usage
9. Fixing the Spelling: Errour and Honor in Johnson and Bailey
10. Phrasel Verbs: Dr Johnson's Use of Bilingual Sources
11. A Dictionary Compiler at Work in the Sixteenth Century
12. Alphabetization in Early Dictionaries of English
13. An Eighteenth-Century Bilingualized Learners' Dictionary
14. Secondary Documentation in Historical Lexicography
15. Dictionary Criticism
16. Bilingual Dictionaries with Dutch: a Case Study in European Lexicography
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