PrefacebyHalliday
王宗炎序
PrefacebyChomsky
沈家煊序
导读
PrefacetothePaperbackEdition
Abbreviations
Introduction
1DictionariesandtheDictionary
1.1Definitions
1.2Typesofdictionaries
2TheLexicographicalSceneofEnglish-SpeakingCountries
2.1Introduction
2.2ThelexicographicalsceneoftheUSA
2.3ThelexicographicalsceneofGreatBritain
2.4OtherEnglish-speakingcountries
2.5NewtrendsandoldtraditionsinEnglish-language
lexicography
3TheHistoricalOriginsoftheGeneral-PurposeDictionary
3.1Pre-history:thefirstdictionaries
3.2MonolingualdictionariesfromtheRenaissancetothe
twentiethcentury
4General-PurposeDictionariesandSociety
4.1Thefunctionsofthegeneral-purposedictionary
4.2Thepopularimageofthegeneral-purposedictionary
5WhatareGeneral-PurposeDictionariesReallyFor?
5.1Thestudyofreferenceneeds
5.2Theskillsofthedictionaryuser
6TheLinguisticTraditionsofLexicography
6.1Lexicographyandlinguistics
6.2Lexicographicaltraditions
WhitherLexicography?
7.1Lexicographyandthestudyofidiomaticity
7.2Wordmeaningandlexicography
7.3Conclusion
Bibliography
UpdateonReferences,1994-2000
Index
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