The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography /:

This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities world-wide. The book takes readers through building a corpus, analysing the data, and writing entries. Numerous exercises show the use o...

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Main Author: Atkins, B. T. S. (Beryl T. Sue)
Other Authors: Rundell, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities world-wide. The book takes readers through building a corpus, analysing the data, and writing entries. Numerous exercises show the use of software to manipulate data and compile entries. - ;This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 540 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-530) and index.
ISBN:0191557218
9780191557217
1281718033
9781281718037
9786611718039
6611718036

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