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Author: Lynda Mugglestone
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ISBN: B005JC0RDE

Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds?

Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. Download Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone shows that all dictionaries are partial and all are selective. They are human products, reflecting the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.

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