文档介绍：International Journal of Lexicography Advance Access published December 15, 2010
International Journal of Lexicography
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REVIEW ARTICLE
A NEW PEDAGOGICAL DICTIONARY
OF ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS
Stephen Coffey: Dipartimento di Anglistica, Universita' di Pisa (******@)
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Michael Rundell (Editor-in-Chief). Macmillan Collocations Dictionary for
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Learners of English. Oxford: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 2010. xiii + 911 pages.
ISBN 978-02307-2403-7. 18.
1. In tro du c tio n
The Macmillan Collocations Dictionary for Learners of English (hereafter MCD) at Shandong University Library on January 9, 2011
is a monolingual print dictionary aimed primarily at higher level students
(upper intermediate to advanced). Previously published dictionaries of the
same kind are the following: Dzierz_anowska and Kozlowska (1982), Benson
et al. (1984, 1997, 2010 – hereafter BBI), Kozlowska (1991), Hill and Lewis
(1998 – hereafter LTP), and the Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of
English (2002, 2008 – hereafter OCD). In the present review I will sometimes
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parison with BBI, LTP and OCD.
In MCD’s introductory pages, it is suggested that the dictionary will prove
especially useful for two general types of learner: those preparing to take
English language exams, and those ‘working in an academic or professional
context’(). With regard to the former group, the dictionary focuses espe-
cially on learners preparing for IELTS With regard to the second
group, a fuller statement of intent is to be found on the publisher’s website,
where we read that ‘The vocabulary we cover is geared especially to the pro-
ductive needs of people working in academic or professional environments,
who often have to write assignments, reports, or reviews in English’.3
Specific reference is made here to the inclusion of many words from
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Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL). I would add that there is an overlap-
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