Better Words: Evaluating Efl Dictionaries

Neuausgabe 2002
ISBN: 978-0-85989-719-8
Verlag: UNIV OF EXETER

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Exeter Language and Lexicograp

Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues and problems. 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 assess the description of the word stock on offer and to decide which EFL dictionary is the most adequate for their specific purposes.

During the last twenty-five years lexicographers and their publishers have experimented with new ways of describing and presenting the words included in their EFL dictionaries to make them more accessible to users. This book compares these dictionaries and critically reviews the lexicographal achievements in the description and presentation of word meanings, registers, exemplification, cultural contexts and pictorial illustrations. It also examines the advantages and disadvantages of using a bilingual and a monolingual EFL dictionary.

Better Words is a companion volume to Chosen Words: Past and Present Problems for Dictionary Makers by Noel Osselton (1995) and Living Words: Language, Lexicography and the Knowledge Revolution by Tom McArthur (1998). Both are published by University of Exeter Press in the series Exeter Language and Lexicography. The general editors of this series are Reinhard Hartmann and Tom McArthur.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Gabrielle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Mehrsprachige Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriele Stein is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg and has published many books on English grammar and lexicology. She was the founding president of the European Association for Lexicography