12 relations: Advanced learner's dictionary, Collocation, Conceptual metaphor, Defining vocabulary, Electronic dictionary, George Lakoff, Macmillan Education, Sketch Engine, Sylviane Granger, The Guardian, Thesaurus, Zipf's law.
Advanced learner's dictionary
The advanced learner's dictionary is the most common type of monolingual learner's dictionary, that is, a dictionary written for someone who is learning a foreign language and who has a proficiency level of B2 or above according to the Common European Framework.
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Collocation
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
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Conceptual metaphor
In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another.
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Defining vocabulary
A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions.
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Electronic dictionary
An electronic dictionary is a dictionary whose data exists in digital form and can be accessed through a number of different media.
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George Lakoff
George P. Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that lives of individuals are significantly influenced by the central metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena.
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Macmillan Education
Macmillan Education is a publisher of English Language teaching and school curriculum materials.
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Sketch Engine
Sketch Engine is a corpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing Limited since 2003.
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Sylviane Granger
Sylviane Granger (born 5 July 1951) is a Belgian linguist and emeritus professor of the Université catholique de Louvain.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Thesaurus
In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order.
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Zipf's law
Zipf's law is an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics that refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_English_Dictionary_for_Advanced_Learners