… to inform the use of English in the world at … , meaning-based approach to the study of the
English language. Its aim is to investigate English as a historically shaped universe of meaning …

… If we are looking for a general model of meaning in English, we will probably be disappointed.
There are so many levels at which meaning operates, and even using the word level is to …

… Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those
aspects of English … English. The book provides pedagogically- relevant information about …

… type of English I will be describing can be called ‘contemporary standard English’. But
discrepancies between the most influential regional varieties – American and British English – as …

… to spoken English mainly through their classes because English was … English input outside
the class. Table 1 summarizes information about the Japanese students’ general L2 English …

This paper reports the findings of a study on the intonation of second language speakers of
English from three language groups: Spanish, Japanese, and Thai. The investigation …

… of grasping and stating meanings makes meanings concrete, … metalanguage in which the
meaning of the indefinables would … in different languages have the same meaning? If this is not …

… the meanings of all the words in a large English dictionary and … that someone speaks English,
or that they ‘know’ English, … , that enables them to produce English sentences as needed. …

This paper outlines three general tendencies in semantic change, and focuses on the third:
meanings tend to become increasingly situated in the speaker's subjective belief state or …

… the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language…