Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries

Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries
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Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries written by Henri Béjoint and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries of the national language of a country are an essential and quite frequently controversial part of social life and learning. This is an account of how such dictionaries are made, how they are used, and the issues and problems that face their writers and editors. It is wide-ranging, scholarly, yet readable in its approach, addressing the linguistic problems in areas such as distinguishing meanings, writing definition, and providing synonyms.


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