Lexical Images
The Story of the Australian National Dictionary
ISBN13: 9780195515770ISBN10: 0195515773
Paperback,
248 pages
Oct 2004,
In Stock
Price:
$32.95 (06)Description
Lexical Images tells the story of the compilation of The Australian National Dictionary, the first historical dictionary of Australianisms. It brings to life different aspects of Australia's history by discussing words included in the dictionary, and shows how these words have become part of a distinctively Australian branch of English.Reviews
"Lexical Images is a very personal story of a dictionary. ... [the reader will] be entertained by the excellence of style, the pace the author was trying to create as the Australian National Dictionary was moving forward."--Linguist List 16.1498
