Publisher's Synopsis
Attempts to stress the importance of vocabulary in linguistics. This book is a series of articles, many of which were presented at the Applied Linguistics International Symposium held in France in 1989, which cover many of the current research activities in the applied linguistics of vocabulary description, learning and teaching. The authors all take the view that vocabulary is a subject not extensively covered in linguistic study. Authors featured include Jean Aitchison, Danuta Biskup, Batia Laufer and Guust Meijers.
