Vocabulary - Applied Linguistic Perspectives

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Vocabulary has been one of the growth areas of language study over the past three decades. In this second edition, Ronald Carter updates progress in key areas of language description and applied linguistics. It includes updated chapters on: vocabulary and language teaching; dictionaries and lexicography; and the literary study of vocabulary. Also included is additional material on the relationship between vocabulary, grammar and discourse and the implications of new insights into vocabulary for the study of speech and writing in English.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. xii)
• Preface to the First Edition (p. xiii)
• Preface to the Second Edition (p. xvi)
• Part I Foundations (p. 1)
• 1 What's in a Word (p. 3)
• Notes (p. 32)
• 2 The Notion of Core Vocabulary (p. 34)
• 3 Words and Patterns (p. 50)
• Notes (p. 77)
• 4 Lexis and Discourse (p. 79)
• Part II Reviews (p. 117)
• 5 Lexis and Literary Stylistics (p. 119)
• 6 Lexis and Lexicography (p. 150)
• Notes (p. 182)
• 7 Learning and Teaching Vocabulary (p. 184)
• Part III Case Studies (p. 245)
• 8 Case Study: Lexis, Tones and Ironies (p. 247)
• 9 Case Study: Style, Lexis and the Dictionary (p. 263)
• Bibliography (p. 284)
• Bibliography of Dictionaries (p. 307)
• Bibliography of Language Corpora (p. 309)
• Index (p. 311)