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This readable and non-technical account is directed at professionals in applied linguistics and English language teaching, and at lexicographers, but it will fascinate everyone concerned with the analysis of English and faced with the challenge of recording the subtleties of its grammar and meaning.
This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how
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This readable and non-technical account is directed at professionals in applied linguistics and English language teaching, and at lexicographers, but it will fascinate everyone concerned with the analysis of English and faced with the challenge of recording the subtleties of its grammar and meaning.
This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how developments in lexical and grammatical theory crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries.
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Autorenporträt
A. P. Cowie is Honorary Reader in Lexicography at the School of English, University of Leeds. He originally trained as an EFL teacher in London, and taught English in Nigeria before becoming an English language specialist at the British Council. A. P. Cowie was a co-editor of the third edition and chief editor of the fourth edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, and is currently editor of the International Journal of Lexicography, published by Oxford University Press.