Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1.Identifying differences between words and terms 7
6. 2.Corpora, corpus design and corpus selection 41
7. 3.Dictionaries and defining strategies 67
8. 4.Analysis of definitions in text 89
9. 5.Defining as a perfomative act 105
10. 6.Retrieval of terms from the corpora 121
11. 7.Retrieval of formal and semi-formal defining expositives 135
12. 8.Synonymy, substitution and paraphrasing 168
13. 9.Using the term as the node 191
14. 10. Summary 204
15. References 211
16. Appendix A 223
17. Appendix B 226
18. Index 241