A History
Cowie, Anthony
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Hardcover
246 pages
References, Index
Published: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198235062
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. This is a history of dictionaries, from their origins to the computerized compilations of the present.