COBUILD British Advanced Dictionary

COBUILD British Advanced Dictionary

Author: Collins CoBUILD

Publisher: Collins Cobuild

Published: 2014-10-20

Total Pages: 1968

ISBN-13: 9780007580583

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The 8th edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format. This dictionary is ideal for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It covers all the words, phrases, and idioms that students need to master in order to speak and write effective English. With full-sentence definitions written in simple, natural English, this dictionary is easy to use and understand. The examples, taken from the 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus, show learners how the words are used in authentic contexts. The dictionary also provides extensive help with grammar, including grammar patterns for many of the examples, and a grammar reference in the supplement. A wide range of vocabulary-building features, many of them with full-colour illustrations, encourage students to expand and improve their accuracy and fluency. The dictionary also includes a Visual Thesaurus, which provides alternatives to the 50 most over-used words in English; an Activity Guide, which helps students learn how to get the most out of the dictionary; a Writer's Handbook, which gives guidance on spelling, punctuation, letter-writing and CVs, and a Speaker's Handbook, which gives advice on the best set phrases to use in specific situations. The Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary provides invaluable and detailed guidance on the English language, and is the complete reference tool for learners of English.


Collins Pocket English Dictionary

Collins Pocket English Dictionary

Author: HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Publisher: Collins

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9780004723877

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A new edition of the most up-to-date and information-packed pocket dictionary available. This new edition of Collins Pocket English Dictionary retains all the key features that made its predecessors so successful: * All the entry words and spelling forms are highlighted in colour giving maximum ease of use. * Its completely up-to-date coverage of written and spoken English is based on analysis of Collins language database, the Bank of English, the largest database of the English language. * All definitions are provided in clear, no-nonsense language that makes the meanings clear. * Modern meanings are given first so it is easy to find the sense you need. But in addition, this edition brings language right up to the minute with its inclusion of the newest words on the scene. Also all the notes giving advice on puzzling or disputed points in using English have been completely revised, based on evidence from the Bank of English, to give you even more confidence in how to express yourself.


Collins Cobuild English Grammar

Collins Cobuild English Grammar

Author: HARPER COLLINS STAFF

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 9780003702576

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This reference grammar has been developed for advanced students and teachers of English. The result of a thorough analysis of written and spoken language, this book provides a clear and detailed picture of modern English grammar. The clear layout, as well


Collins COBUILD Pocket Dictionary

Collins COBUILD Pocket Dictionary

Author:

Publisher: Collins Cobuild

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780007100231

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Based on the completely new and innovative Cobuild Gem dictionary, the second edition of the Collins Cobuild Pocket Dictionary is specifically designed to meet the needs of learners, making it the essential tool to build confidence in English.


Words, Meaning and Vocabulary

Words, Meaning and Vocabulary

Author: Howard Jackson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780826460967

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This work goes back to the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines what constitutes a word, with a discussion of words that look and sound the same, words that have several meanings, and "words" that are made up of more than one "word". As well as considering the borrowing of words from other languages throughout the history of English as a means of increasing the vocabulary, the book also outlines how English forms new words by exploiting the structure of existing words, through processes of derivation and compounding. The meaning of a word is composite of a number of relations: reference to external context, relations with other words of a similar or opposite meaning, collocational relations, and so on. The book grapples with the meaning problem, but then goes on to look at the contexts in which words are used and the purposes for which they are used, raising the question whether it is more sensible to talk about English "vocabularies" rather than English "vocabulary".


English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners

English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners

Author: Anthony Paul Cowie

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780199250844

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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.


Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Author: Ronald Carter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0415168643

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Vocabulary has been one of the growth areas of language study over the past three decades. In the second edition of this definitive study, Ronald Carter updates progress in key areas of language description and applied linguistics. This new edition includes new material on the relationship between vocabulary, grammar and discourse and the implications of new insights into vocabulary for the study of speech and writing in English. It also has updated chapters on vocabulary and language teaching, dictionaries and lexicography, and the literary study of vocabulary. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectiveshas been widely praised since first publication for the breadth, depth and clarity of its approach. This new edition builds upon these foundations and develops further understanding of this key area of applied linguistics.


Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse

Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse

Author: Simone Müller

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-11-24

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9027293961

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While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse marker literature and to studies in the pragmatics of learner language. It presents a thorough analysis on the basis of a substantial parallel corpus of spoken language. In this corpus, American students who are native speakers of English and German non-native speakers of English retell and discuss a silent movie. Each of the main chapters of the book is dedicated to one discourse marker, giving a detailed analysis of the functions this discourse marker fulfills in the corpus and a quantitative comparison between the two speaker groups. The book also develops a two-level model of discourse marker functions comprising a textual and an interactional level.