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How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives includes an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the modern lexicon in English and discusses key topics such as vocabulary and language teaching, dictionaries and lexicography and the literary, stylistic study of vocabulary.
This Routledge Linguistics Classic includes a substantial new introductory chapter situating the book in the current digital age, covering changes and developments in related fields from lexicography and corpus linguistics to vocabulary testing and assessment as well as additional new references.
Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives has been widely praised since first publication for the breadth, depth and clarity of its approach and is a key text for postgraduate students and researchers studying vocabulary within the fields of English Language, Applied Linguistics and Education.
"[A] remarkable piece of linguistic work, embracing the basics while addressing topics or areas of particular interest or technicality. It will not only be a good text for beginners of linguistics... but will also appeal to more advanced readers." - LINGUIST List
| List of figures and tables | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Preface to the first edition | p. x |
| Preface to the second edition | p. xii |
| Vocabulary and applied linguistics: recent past and nearer future | p. 1 |
| Foundations | p. 17 |
| What's in a word | p. 19 |
| The notion of core vocabulary | p. 47 |
| Words and patterns | p. 61 |
| Lexis and discourse | p. 86 |
| Reviews | p. 119 |
| Lexis and literary stylistics | p. 121 |
| Lexis and lexicography | p. 148 |
| Learning and teaching vocabulary | p. 178 |
| Case studies | p. 231 |
| Case study: lexis, tones and ironies | p. 233 |
| Case study: style, lexis and the dictionary | p. 248 |
| Bibliography | p. 267 |
| Select bibliography of dictionaries (updated 2012) | p. 292 |
| Select bibliography of language corpora (updated 2012) | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 299 |
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ISBN: 9780415699341
ISBN-10: 0415699347
Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 28th February 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.499
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