Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues. It describes in detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of EFL dictionaries over recent decades and will help teachers and their students to decide which EFL dictionary is the most adequate for their specific purposes.

Hardback    £75.00
9780859897198 | Published: 2002

This collection of essays shows how dictionaries today have grown from the small beginnings of English lexicography in Shakespeare's time. Discussion is anchored in the practice of the past, but the author has been concerned throughout to show how the difficulties which beset the first compilers are still with us today.

Hardback    £75.00
9780859894197 | Published: 1995

A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters.

Paperback    £30.00
9781905816316 | Published: 2020

Hardback    £80.00
9781905816309 | Published: 2020

EPUB    £25.00
9781905816323 | Published: 2020

The specific aim of this book is to argue that translation can add depth and breadth to both contrastive linguistics as well as to discourse analysis. While the literature on either contrastive linguistics or discourse analysis has grown immensely in the last twenty years, very little of it has ventured into fusing the two perspectives.

PDF    £17.50
9780859899086 | Published: 2015

In this unique and entertaining collection of articles, a noted scholar and compiler of key works of reference reflects on the nature of language, the art of lexicography and the breath-taking developments in communication, the media and information technology in the late twentieth century.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859896207 | Published: 1999

Hardback    £75.00
9780859896115 | Published: 1999

This book tackles fragmentation in mental health discourse and in particular the relationship between academic discourse in different disciplinary silos and public discourse in the media. It argues that fragmentation in public discourse does harm, and that an approach is needed that is able to integrate across perspectives holistically.

Paperback    £25.00
9781905816576 | Published: 2020

Hardback    £75.00
9781905816507 | Published: 2020

EPUB    £75.00
9781905816514 | Published: 2020

The book provides an overview of key areas and will serve as a useful introductory text for those following university courses in this field.

Paperback    £20.00
9780859894845 | Published: 1996