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English dictionaries as cultural mines

Roberta Facchinetti · 2012

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Discusses "the role of dictionaries in the identification and expression of cultural aspects in language, with special reference to English. As such, its eleven chapters have been arranged to focus on general, genre-specific, monolingual and bilingual lexicography, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective"--Cover, page [4].

Book details

Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars
Editions
1
Pages
264
ISBN
9781443836470

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