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Technical Dictionary.

Publication: Architectural Science Review
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Technical Dictionary.(Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Technical Dictionary

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Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction, by Nikolas Davies and Erkki Jokiniemi, Architectural Press (imprint of Elsevier), Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK, 2008. 736pp, illus. Price 34.99 [pounds sterling] Hbk. ISBN 978-0-7506-8502-3

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The requirements for writing a technical dictionary are quite different from those for an all-of-language dictionary. There are the problems of selecting boundaries to the area of specialty; of deciding what is too commonplace, or too esoteric, to be included; of how to handle the inevitably large number of illustrations; and of how to manage...

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