VOLUME I: GENERAL-PURPOSE DICTIONARIES 1. Introduction PART I. EARLY GLOSSARIES BILINGUAL, AND MU... more VOLUME I: GENERAL-PURPOSE DICTIONARIES 1. Introduction PART I. EARLY GLOSSARIES BILINGUAL, AND MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES 2. Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period 3. Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century 4. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries 5. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries 6. Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries PART 2. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES 7. The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary Seventeenth and Early Eighteenthth Centuries 8. Johnson and Richardson 9. Major American Dictionaries 10. The Oxford English Dictionary 11. The OED Supplements 12. National and Regional Dictionaries of English 13. Dictionaries of Scots 14. The Period Dictionaries 15. Dictionaries of Caribbean English 16. The Electronic OED: the computerization of a historical dictionary References Index of Names Index of Subjects VOLUME II: SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES PART 1. DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO ORDERING OF ENTRIES, TOPICAL OR LINGUISTIC CONTENT, OR SPEECH COMMUNITY 1. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri 2. Scientific and Technical Dictionaries 3. Dictionaries of Place-names 4. Dictionaries of Personal Names 5. Pronouncing Dictionaries - i Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 6. Pronouncing Dictionaries - ii Mid to Late-Nineteenth Century 7. Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries 8. Dictionaries of Quotations 9. English Etymological Dictionaries 10. Dialect Dictionaries 11. Slang and Cant Dictionaries PART 2. DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO USES AND USERS 12. Dictionaries of Usage 13. The American Collegiate Dictionaries 14. The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries 15. Linguistic Research and Learner's Dictionaries: The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 16. The Cobuild Project 17. Dictionaries in Electronic Form References Index of Names Index of Subjects
... tool Hilary Nesi ... usability. 5. The use of Jin Shan Ci Ba A less obvious but equally signi... more ... tool Hilary Nesi ... usability. 5. The use of Jin Shan Ci Ba A less obvious but equally significant rival to the MED was the e-dictionary used by almost all the Chinese students on their home computers, but rarely alluded to in class. ...
Transcribed recordings of 160 lectures and 39 seminars held in university departments. Four broad... more Transcribed recordings of 160 lectures and 39 seminars held in university departments. Four broad disciplinary groups, 1,644,942 tokens in total.
Home-made corpora are a useful source of highly discipline-specific language data. They enable EA... more Home-made corpora are a useful source of highly discipline-specific language data. They enable EAP practitioners not only to find out more about disciplinary practice in their own contexts, but also to create bespoke materials and activities for learners with specific communicative needs. The process of collecting and preparing corpus data is often rather daunting, however, especially if the corpus is not solely for personal use, and if it is to include unpublished texts. This paper will explain the process of corpus creation from the perspective of an EAP practitioner working in Oman. The project under discussion was undertaken without special funding, as part of the day-to-day activity of a busy college writing centre. Steps in the process included seeking ethics clearance, liaising with lecturers in the selected discipline (civil engineering), collecting student assignments via an online submission portal, converting, categorising and annotating files, and making them available to students and colleagues via a corpus query interface. The paper will also report on the practical uses of this project, to support Omani engineering students studying in the medium of English (forthcoming in the proceedings of the BALEAP 2017 Conference held in Bristol University, UK).
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general mon... more The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platform, in language versions specific to each target country. It was completed by 9,562 respondents, over 300 respondents per country on average. The survey consisted of the general section, which was translated and presented to all participants, as well as country-specific sections for a subset of 11 countries, which were drafted by collaborators at the national level. The present report covers the general section. 1 Introduction Research into dictionary use has become increasingly important in recent years. In contrast to 15 years ago, new findings in this area are presented every year, e.g. at every Euralex or eLex conference. These studies range from questionnaire or log file studies to smaller-scale studies focussing on eye tracking, usability, or other aspects of dictionary use measurable in a lab. For an overview of different studies,
ABSTRACT Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, thi... more ABSTRACT Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). • Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP • Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars • Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English • Considers perspectives on ESP research such as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography
While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic features of a... more While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic features of academic discourse, few studies have explored how these interact across a range of university student writing situations. To counter misconceptions that have arisen regarding student writing, this article aims to provide comprehensive linguistic descriptions of a wide range of university assignment genres in relation to multiple situational variables. Our new multidimensional (MD) analysis of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus identifies clusters of linguistic features along four dimensions, onto which academic disciplines, disciplinary groups, levels of study, and genre families are mapped. The dimensions are interpreted through text extracts as: (i) Compressed Procedural Information versus Stance towards the Work of Others; (ii) Personal Stance; (iii) Possible Events versus Completed Events; and (iv) Informational Density. Clusters of linguistic features from the compreh...
VOLUME I: GENERAL-PURPOSE DICTIONARIES 1. Introduction PART I. EARLY GLOSSARIES BILINGUAL, AND MU... more VOLUME I: GENERAL-PURPOSE DICTIONARIES 1. Introduction PART I. EARLY GLOSSARIES BILINGUAL, AND MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES 2. Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period 3. Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century 4. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries 5. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries 6. Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries PART 2. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES 7. The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary Seventeenth and Early Eighteenthth Centuries 8. Johnson and Richardson 9. Major American Dictionaries 10. The Oxford English Dictionary 11. The OED Supplements 12. National and Regional Dictionaries of English 13. Dictionaries of Scots 14. The Period Dictionaries 15. Dictionaries of Caribbean English 16. The Electronic OED: the computerization of a historical dictionary References Index of Names Index of Subjects VOLUME II: SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES PART 1. DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO ORDERING OF ENTRIES, TOPICAL OR LINGUISTIC CONTENT, OR SPEECH COMMUNITY 1. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri 2. Scientific and Technical Dictionaries 3. Dictionaries of Place-names 4. Dictionaries of Personal Names 5. Pronouncing Dictionaries - i Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 6. Pronouncing Dictionaries - ii Mid to Late-Nineteenth Century 7. Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries 8. Dictionaries of Quotations 9. English Etymological Dictionaries 10. Dialect Dictionaries 11. Slang and Cant Dictionaries PART 2. DICTIONARIES SPECIALIZED ACCORDING TO USES AND USERS 12. Dictionaries of Usage 13. The American Collegiate Dictionaries 14. The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries 15. Linguistic Research and Learner's Dictionaries: The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 16. The Cobuild Project 17. Dictionaries in Electronic Form References Index of Names Index of Subjects
... tool Hilary Nesi ... usability. 5. The use of Jin Shan Ci Ba A less obvious but equally signi... more ... tool Hilary Nesi ... usability. 5. The use of Jin Shan Ci Ba A less obvious but equally significant rival to the MED was the e-dictionary used by almost all the Chinese students on their home computers, but rarely alluded to in class. ...
Transcribed recordings of 160 lectures and 39 seminars held in university departments. Four broad... more Transcribed recordings of 160 lectures and 39 seminars held in university departments. Four broad disciplinary groups, 1,644,942 tokens in total.
Home-made corpora are a useful source of highly discipline-specific language data. They enable EA... more Home-made corpora are a useful source of highly discipline-specific language data. They enable EAP practitioners not only to find out more about disciplinary practice in their own contexts, but also to create bespoke materials and activities for learners with specific communicative needs. The process of collecting and preparing corpus data is often rather daunting, however, especially if the corpus is not solely for personal use, and if it is to include unpublished texts. This paper will explain the process of corpus creation from the perspective of an EAP practitioner working in Oman. The project under discussion was undertaken without special funding, as part of the day-to-day activity of a busy college writing centre. Steps in the process included seeking ethics clearance, liaising with lecturers in the selected discipline (civil engineering), collecting student assignments via an online submission portal, converting, categorising and annotating files, and making them available to students and colleagues via a corpus query interface. The paper will also report on the practical uses of this project, to support Omani engineering students studying in the medium of English (forthcoming in the proceedings of the BALEAP 2017 Conference held in Bristol University, UK).
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general mon... more The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platform, in language versions specific to each target country. It was completed by 9,562 respondents, over 300 respondents per country on average. The survey consisted of the general section, which was translated and presented to all participants, as well as country-specific sections for a subset of 11 countries, which were drafted by collaborators at the national level. The present report covers the general section. 1 Introduction Research into dictionary use has become increasingly important in recent years. In contrast to 15 years ago, new findings in this area are presented every year, e.g. at every Euralex or eLex conference. These studies range from questionnaire or log file studies to smaller-scale studies focussing on eye tracking, usability, or other aspects of dictionary use measurable in a lab. For an overview of different studies,
ABSTRACT Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, thi... more ABSTRACT Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). • Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP • Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars • Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English • Considers perspectives on ESP research such as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography
While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic features of a... more While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic features of academic discourse, few studies have explored how these interact across a range of university student writing situations. To counter misconceptions that have arisen regarding student writing, this article aims to provide comprehensive linguistic descriptions of a wide range of university assignment genres in relation to multiple situational variables. Our new multidimensional (MD) analysis of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus identifies clusters of linguistic features along four dimensions, onto which academic disciplines, disciplinary groups, levels of study, and genre families are mapped. The dimensions are interpreted through text extracts as: (i) Compressed Procedural Information versus Stance towards the Work of Others; (ii) Personal Stance; (iii) Possible Events versus Completed Events; and (iv) Informational Density. Clusters of linguistic features from the compreh...
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