Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780199573790
ISBN-13 : 0199573794
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Book Synopsis Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction by : Lynda Mugglestone

Book excerpt: Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.


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