English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners

Download or read book English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners written by Anthony Paul Cowie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how developments in lexical and grammatical theory crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries.