Description
Book SynopsisBetter Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues. It describes in detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of EFL dictionaries over recent decades and will help teachers and their students to decide which EFL dictionary is the most adequate for their specific purposes.
Trade Review
‘As such, the collection is a landmark in the field of EFL lexicography and its reading can be but highly recommended.’ (Lexikos. 16, 2006)
"Professor Stein is one of the most active and authoritative figures working in the field of English Language Studies today." (A.P. Cowie, Editor, International Journal of Lexicography)
Table of Contents
Foreword by Reinhard Hartmann
Introduction
1. The English Dictionary: Past, Present and Future
2. EFL Dictionaries, the Teacher and the Student
3. From the Bilingual to the Monolingual Dictionary
4. The Best of British and American Lexicography
5. Word-Formation in Modern English Dictionaries
6. Recent Developments in EFL Dictionaries
7. The Dictionary and the Language Learner
8. EFL Dictionaries: Meaning, Culture, Illustrations
9. Social and Stylistic Stratification in English Vocabulary and its Treatment in Pedagogical Dictionaries
10. Illustrations in Dictionaries
11. Exemplification in EFL Dictionaries
Dictionary Abbreviations
References
Index
