Kathy Rooney (English) Kong Qi (Chinese): 'The English-Chinese Encarta Dictionary'

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  • Lan Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s40607-014-0005-0

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book review

Abstract

Kathy Rooney (English) Kong Qi (Chinese): 'The English-Chinese Encarta Dictionary' Guangzhou: World Book Press. 2011. 2238 pages. ISBN 978-7-5100- 4508-0/H.0765

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McArthur, Tom (ed.). 1999. The Oxford companion to the English language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Rooney, Kathy. 2005. Introduction. Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionary, xi–xiii. London: A & C Black.

Yamada, Shigeru. 2013. Monolingual learners’ dictionaries—Where now? In The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography, ed. Howard Jackson, 188–212. London: Bloomsbury.

Yong, Heming, and Jing Peng. 2007. Bilingual lexicography from a communication perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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2014-07-01

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How to Cite

Li, L. (2014). Kathy Rooney (English) Kong Qi (Chinese): ’The English-Chinese Encarta Dictionary’. Lexicography, 1(1), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40607-014-0005-0