Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives

by Ronald Carter

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415699334
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/28/2012
Series:	Routledge Linguistics Classics
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)

About the Author

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham, UK and has written and edited more than 30 books, including most recently Language and Creativity (2004, Routledge). He is the author and editor of twelve books with Routledge, and has edited and co-edited five Routledge series.

Table of Contents

Part I Foundations

1. What's in a word

2. The notion of core vocabulary

3. Words and patterns

4. Lexis and discourse

Part II Reviews

5. Lexis and literary stylistics

6. Lexis and lexicography

7. Learning and teaching vocabulary

Part III Case studies

8. Case study: Lexis, tones and ironies

9. Case study: Style, lexis and the dictionary

Editorial Reviews

"[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

'Indeed, the book is what the name of the series indicates, one of the linguistic classics... The book... is in and of itself 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 who are interested in vocabulary as an object of study, but will also appeal to more advanced readers who are well aware of the interdisciplinary nature of various linguistic disciplines and are therefore looking to see how lexical study can link them all up and produce analyses that may at once be both challenging and inspiring.' - Linguist List

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