English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History

By Anthony Paul Cowie

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199250847
• ISBN13: 9780199250844
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.6"