Mariusz Piotr Kamiński. Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries.

This book must be the most thorough and comprehensive up-to-date account of restricted vocabularies English language. In Introduction, author formulates six research questions, which partly aim at design different vocabularies, and, focus on effectiveness definitions based vocabularies. Chapter 1 traces development back to 17th century outlines important stages such as Isaac Pitman's Kaeding's shorthand systems. The then makes a distinction between (a) frequency-based objective approach taken by scholars Thorndike Horn, (b) more pedagogically oriented associated with Harold Palmer Michael West, (c) logical attributed Ogden Richards, discusses pros cons each them. remainder chapter is devoted very detailed outline critical discussion West's famous influential General Service List. He comes GSL after outlining number word list projects that were designed for pedagogical purposes in 2, also deals human-computer communication Wierzbicka's theory semantic metalanguage.