Raija Hurme, Maritta Pesonen & Olli Syvlioja: Englanti-Suomi opiskelusanakirja ('Engelsk-finsk studieordbok')

Anmeldt værk:Raija Hurme, Maritta Pesonen, Olli Syvaoja: Englanti-Suomi opiskelusanakirja('Engelsk-finsk studieordbok'). WSOY, Juva 1994. Pris 157FIM.In this contribution, the author examiries a new medium-sized English-Finnish dictionaryby putting it in a user's test. Comparisons are made with a large bilingual dictionarycompiled by the same authors. The inclusion of new words in some specialquickly developing fields and slang, the handy size of the book, as well as the outlayand setting of the head words are positive features of the work. Tue author reminds ofthe structural differences of the languages involved and is more critical towards thepragmatic way of classifying some words, primarily adjectives: in some cases subarticleswith examples of contexts would be preferable. She would also like to have apreface with more information on the sources and theoretical principles of the work.