Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an
insight into its fundamental issues and problems. It describes in
detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of
EFL dictionaries over recent decades and will help teachers and
their students to assess the description of the word stock on offer
and to decide which EFL dictionary is the most adequate for their
specific purposes. During the last twenty-five years lexicographers
and their publishers have experimented with new ways of describing
and presenting the words included in their EFL dictionaries to make
them more accessible to users. This book compares these
dictionaries and critically reviews the lexicographal achievements
in the description and presentation of word meanings, registers,
exemplification, cultural contexts and pictorial illustrations. It
also examines the advantages and disadvantages of using a bilingual
and a monolingual EFL dictionary. Better Words is a companion
volume to Chosen Words: Past and Present Problems for Dictionary
Makers by Noel Osselton (1995) and Living Words: Language,
Lexicography and the Knowledge Revolution by Tom McArthur (1998).
Both are published by University of Exeter Press in the series
Exeter Language and Lexicography. The general editors of this
series are Reinhard Hartmann and Tom McArthur.
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