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Author:   A. P. Cowie (Honorary Reader in Lexicography, School of English, Honorary Reader in Lexicography, School of English, University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9780198299646

ISBN 10:   0198299648
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 February 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: A. P. Cowie: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Perspectives: The Russian Tradition 2: Igor Mel'cuk: Collocations and Lexical Functions 3: Veronika Teliya, Natalya Bragina, Elena Oparina, Irina Sandomirskaya: Phraseology as a Language of Culture: Its role in the representation of a cultural mentality Part II: Phraseology in Written and Spoken Corpora 4: Rosamund Moon: Frequencies and Forms of Phrasal Lexemes in English 5: Bengt Altenberg: On the Phraseology of Spoken English: The evidence of recurrent word-combinations Part III: Phraseology in Special-Purpose Languages and Foreign-Learner Language 6: Rosemarie Gläser: The Stylistic Potential of Phraseological Units in the Light of Genre Analysis 7: Sylviane Granger: Prefabricated Patterns in Advanced EFL Writing: Collocations and formulae 8: Peter Howarth: The Phraseology of Learners' Academic Writing Part IV: Phraseology and the Dictionary 9: Thierry Fontenelle: Discovering Significant Lexical Functions in Dictionary Entries 10: A. P. Cowie: Phraseological Dictionaries: Some east-west comparisons

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Phraseology is a remarkable book. It is a valuable synthesis of historical and modern perspectives of a very rich field in the lexicon of a language. Terminology

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A. P. Cowie is Honorary Reader in Lexicography at the School of English, University of Leeds. He is editor of the 'International Journal of Lexicography'. He is also the editor and contributor to 'The Dictionary and the Language Learner' (1987), 'Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary of Current English' (fourth edition, 1989), 'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs' (1993), and the author of 'English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History' (1999).

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