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Hilary Nesi,
Barbara McGillivray,
Kati Sule,
Sharon Creese,
Michael Rundell,
Laura Campos de Borba,
Yan-Yan Yeung,
and
Ralph Morton
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- The reasons why we use dictionaries.
- The differences between ‘landmark’ dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary and less conventional products such as collaborative and crowdsourced dictionaries.
- What goes into a dictionary – who decides, and how?
- Dictionaries and dictionary information for different users.
- The stages in corpus-based lexicography.
- How meanings are created, why some words have more than one meaning, how lexicographers identify meanings and how meanings are explained in a dictionary.
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FutureLearn
Institutions
Coventry University
Macmillan Education
The Alan Turing Institute
Instructors
Hilary Nesi
Barbara McGillivray
Kati Sule
Sharon Creese
Michael Rundell
Laura Campos de Borba
Yan-Yan Yeung
Ralph Morton
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