Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives (2nd ed.)

Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives, first published in 1987, appeared as a second edition in 1998. It reappeared with an introductory chapter in 2012, hence deserving another review. Aside from the addition of this complementary chapter, the volume consists of the same early three parts: (1) Part 1, Foundations, has four chapters and deals with the basics, ranging from the analysis of the forms of words to their roles in discourse contexts, (2) Part 2, Reviews, with three chapters discusses the use of vocabulary in the domains of language learning and teaching, lexicography, and stylistic analysis, and (3) Part 3, Case studies, contains two chapters on lexical stylistics.