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Introduction; 1. What is a dictionary?; 2. A brief history oflexicography; 3. Key elements of dictionaries and other language references;4. Definition; 5. Usage; 6. The corpus in lexicography; 7. Dictionary making;8. Legal and ethical issues; Bibliography and index to dictionaries mentionedin the text, from Johnson (1755) to the present; A selective bibliography ofnondictionary sources.