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The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs), which includes 25 encyclopedias in different areas, is an encyclopedic collection published by Oxford University Press in print and online. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its website was entirely free during an initial development period of several years.
The Taylor Institution (commonly known as the Taylorian) is the Oxford University library dedicated to the study of the languages of Europe. [1] [2] Its building also includes lecture rooms used by the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
The Oxford English Corpus (OEC) is a text corpus of 21st-century English, used by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary and by Oxford University Press' language research programme. It is the largest corpus of its kind, containing nearly 2.1 billion words. [ 1 ]
Oxford's French sub-faculty is the largest French studies department outside France, with over thirty permanent members of staff covering all areas of French literature and language. The quality and range of the department's research was recognised in two Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs).
According to linguist Suzanne Romaine, Ethnologue is also the leading source for research on language diversity. [52] According to The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Ethnologue is "the standard reference source for the listing and enumeration of Endangered Languages, and for all known and "living" languages of the world"."
Oxford University Press is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its lexicographers naming an English-language word or expression that reflects the world during the last 12 months. “Looking back ...
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics is a department of the University of Oxford, headed by Aditi Lahiri. [1] It was created in 2008, uniting the discipline which had previously been studied across a variety of other departments. [1]
Other scientific writing genres include writing literature-review articles (also typically for scientific journals), which summarize the existing state of a given aspect of a scientific field, and writing grant proposals, which are a common means of obtaining funding to support scientific research. Scientific writing is more likely to focus on ...