Title To Define and Inform : an Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark.

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Summary	""To Inform and Define: An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark"" presents a masterly synthesis of lexicographical theory in relation to bilingual and learner's dictionaries and advances a radical argument about how such dictionaries are used and how they should be improved for the convenience of students. By tracing the history of the terms 'semantic' and 'pragmatic' in linguistics and philosophy, Saihong Li shows the weakness of an ...
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Subject	English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers.
	English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers.
	English language -- Study and teaching -- Danish speakers.
	English language -- Study and teaching -- Danish speakers.
	Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
	Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Rasmussen, Saihong Li. To Define and Inform : An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443822336
ISBN	9781443822503 (electronic book)
	1443822507 (electronic book)