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020			_a9780194312431 (pbk)
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050		4	_aPE1464 _b.O94 2002
082	0		_a423.1 OXF _222
245	0	0	_aOxford Collocations Dictionary : _bfor students of English. _cSheila Dignen, Jonathan Crowther, and Diana Lea (Managing Editors).
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2002.
300			_axiii, 897 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_a"Imagine a student writing an essay on the environment. She knows the themes she wishes to cover and the ideas and arguments to get across. She already has a stock of useful vocabulary, especially high-content nouns like environment, pollution, ozone layer. What is missing are the words that can link these high-content vocabulary items together into a coherent whole - a narrative or an argument. Pollution is a problem, but what needs to be done about it? Looking up the entry for pollution in the Oxford Collocations Dictionary and skimming down to the verbs section offers the choice of avoid/prevent, combat/control/fight/tackle, cut/limit/minimize/reduce or monitor. With the back-up help of a good monolingual learner's dictionary (such as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary) if need be, the student can choose the most appropriate verb, the one that expresses most exactly what she wants to say.
505			_aWhat is collocation? Collocation is the way words combine in a language to produce natural-sounding speech and writing. For example, in English you say strong wind but heavy rain. It would not be normal to say heavy wind or strong rain. And whilst all four of these words would be recognized by a learner at pre-intermediate or even elementary level, it takes a greater degree of competence with the language to combine them correctly in productive use. To a native-speakers these combinations are highly predictable; to a learner they are anything but.
505			_aWhy use a Collocations Dictionary? A normal dictionary, whether monolingual or bilingual, splits up meaning into individual words: it has a lot of power in dissecting the meaning of a text. Its power is more limited when it comes to constructing texts. Good learner's dictionaries give as much help as they can with usage, with grammar patterns clearly explained, register labels and example sentences showing words in context. Modern dictionaries are increasingly giving attention to collocation. But they are still hampered by trying to provide a whole range of information about any word besides its collocations. A grammar provides an analysis of the general patterns that exist in a language. But its productive power is limited by the degree to which it generalizes in order to come up with 'grammatical rules'. A collocational dictionary doesn't have to generalize to the same extent: it covers the entire language (or a large part of it!) on a word by word, collocation by collocation basis. It manages this by not attempting to account for every possible utterance, only for what is most typical.
505			_aBy focusing on the specific rather than the general, a collocations dictionary is also able to 're-digest' a lot of the grammar involved, presenting collocates in their most typical form in context, even if this is not the usual dictionary citation form. For example at the entry for baby, you will find the collocation be teething, reflecting the fact that this verb is always used in the progressive tenses. Use the collocations dictionary systematically and you become much more aware of the extent to which English makes use of the passive, an aspect of grammar that even advanced students may be reluctant to put to full productive use.
505			_aBy covering the language systematically from A-Z, a collocations dictionary allows students to build up their own collocational competence on a "need-to-know" basis, starting from the words they already know - or know in part. Occasional, or even regular, collocations exercises in coursebooks cannot fulfill this role, although they do a useful job of raising the profile of collocation as an essential feature of the language, and teach some useful collocations in the process." (Introduction, p. vii-viii)
505			_aCONTENTS
505			_alist of usage notes and special pages
505			_apreface
505			_aacknowledgements
505			_aintroduction
505			_aguide to the entries
505			_athe dictionary
505			_astudy pages between
505			_aideas into words
505			_ausing a noun entry
505			_ausing a verb entry
505			_ausing an adjective entry
505			_acommon verbs
505			_anatural disasters
505			_acriminal justice
505			_aeducation
505			_adriving
505			_apolitics
505			_ajobs
505			_amoney
505			_akey to the study pages
505			_ainside front cover _tkey to abbreviations, symbols and labels
650		0	_aCollocation (Linguistics) _vDictionaries.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xIdioms _vDictionaries.
700			_aDignen, Sheila
700			_aCrowther, Jonathan
700			_aLea, Diana
942			_2z _cREF