List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Reasons for Undertaking Research into Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 1.1.1 The Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as an Innovative and Intriguing Lexicographic Hybrid -- 1.1.2 The Lack of Previous Research into Contemporary Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 1.1.3 The Potential for Development of the BTD -- 1.2 The Aims of the Research -- 1.2.1 What are Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries? -- 1.2.2 How Useful are BTDs? -- 1.2.3 How Can BTDs and the Use of BTDs be Improved? -- 2 The Nature and Development of the Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as a Hybrid Lexicographic Genre -- 2.1 Researching the Bilingual Thematic Dictionary from the Typological, Structural, and User Perspectives -- 2.2 The Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as a Type of Bilingual Dictionary -- 2.2.1 What is a Bilingual Dictionary? -- 2.2.2 The Different Types of Bilingual Dictionary -- 2.2.3 The Key Issues of Bilingual Lexicography -- 2.2.4 What are the Desiderata for a Bilingual Dictionary? -- 2.3 The Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as a Type of Learner's Dictionary -- 2.3.1 What is a Learner's Dictionary? -- 2.3.2 The Different Types of Learner's Dictionary -- 2.3.3 What are the Desiderata for a Learner's Dictionary? -- 2.3.4 A Checklist of Monolingual Learner's Dictionary Features and Choices -- 2.4 The Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as a Type of Thematic Dictionary -- 2.4.1 What is Thematic Lexicography? -- 2.4.2 Thematic Dictionaries -- 2.5 Thesauri -- 2.5.1 What is a Thesaurus? -- 2.5.2 Definitions of 'Thesaurus' -- 2.5.3 Contemporary Native-Speaker Thesauri -- 2.6 Bilingual Synonym Dictionaries -- 2.7 The Key Issues and Desiderata of Thematic Lexicography -- 2.8 Monolingual Thematic Learner's Dictionaries.

2.8.1 An Overview of Monolingual Thematic Learner's Dictionaries -- 2.8.2 The Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English -- 2.8.3 The Longman Language Activator -- 2.8.4 The Longman Essential Activator -- 2.8.5 The Longman Pocket Activator -- 2.8.6 The Oxford Learner's Wordfinder Dictionary -- 2.8.7 A Checklist of Thematic Dictionary Features and Choices -- 2.9 Summary of Chapter 2 -- 3 Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 3.1 An Overview of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 3.1.1 A Chronology of Key Works -- 3.1.2 The Types of BTD in the Survey -- 3.2 The Cambridge Word Routes Series -- 3.2.1 The Six Dictionaries in the CWR Series -- 3.2.2 Users -- 3.2.3 Aims -- 3.2.4 Inclusion -- 3.2.5 Lexicographic Evidence -- 3.2.6 Overall Structure and Textual Components -- 3.2.7 Macrostructure -- 3.2.8 Sections -- 3.2.9 Microstructure -- 3.2.10 Other Features -- 3.2.11 Access Routes -- 3.2.12 User Guidance -- 3.3 The Cambridge French/English Thesaurus -- 3.3.1 Users -- 3.3.2 Aims -- 3.3.3 Inclusion -- 3.3.4 Lexicographic Evidence -- 3.3.5 Overall Structure and Textual Components -- 3.3.6 Macrostructure -- 3.3.7 Sections -- 3.3.8 Microstructure -- 3.3.9 Other Features -- 3.3.10 Access Routes -- 3.3.11 User Guidance -- 3.4 The Collins Robert Comprehensive Dictionary & Thesaurus -- 3.4.1 Users -- 3.4.2 Aims -- 3.4.3 Inclusion -- 3.4.4 Lexicographic Evidence -- 3.4.5 Overall Structure and Textual Components -- 3.4.6 Macrostructure -- 3.4.7 Microstructure -- 3.4.8 Other Features -- 3.4.9 Access Routes -- 3.4.10 User Guidance -- 3.5 Bilingual Thematic Slang Dictionaries -- 3.5.1 The Street French Slang Dictionary and Thesaurus -- 3.5.2 The Streetwise French Dictionary/Thesaurus -- 3.6 A Checklist of Existing BTD Features and Choices -- 3.7 Summary of Chapter 3.

4 Approaches to Evaluating the Usefulness of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 4.1 A Three-Pronged Approach -- 4.2 Assessing Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries from the User Perspective -- 4.2.1 The Informants -- 4.2.2 User Research Methodology -- 4.2.3 The Scope and Limitations of User Research -- 4.3 Summary of Chapter 4 -- 5 The Compilation of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries: Choices and Recommendations -- 5.1 A Cumulative Checklist of Actual and Potential BTD Features and Choices -- 5.2 Physical Format -- 5.3 Independent and Dependent BTDs -- 5.4 Inclusion -- 5.5 Lexicographic Evidence -- 5.6 Macrostructure -- 5.7 Sections -- 5.8 Headings -- 5.9 Microstructure -- 5.10 Other Features -- 5.11 Access Structures and Routes -- 5.12 User Guidance and Practice -- 5.13 Bilingual Elements -- 5.14 CD-ROM Features -- 5.15 Summary of Chapter 5 -- 6 Conclusions -- 6.1 What are Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries? -- 6.2 How Useful are Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries? -- 6.3 How Can BTDs and the Use of BTDs be Improved? -- 6.4 Implications for Future Research into BTDs -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1 A Checklist of Monolingual Learner's Dictionary Features and Choices -- Appendix 2 A Checklist of Thematic Dictionary Features and Choices -- Appendix 3 A Checklist of Existing BTD Features and Choices -- Appendix 4 A Sample of the EFL Questionnaire Version A (for French Learners of English) -- Appendix 5 Location Guessing Experiment: List of BTD Categories -- Appendix 6 Location Guessing Experiment: List of 10 Words -- Appendix 7 Search Report Experiment: Answer/Search Report Sheet -- Appendix 8 A Cumulative Checklist of Actual and Potential BTD Features and Choices -- Appendix 9 Location Guessing Experiment: Guessed Locations for Each Word.

Appendix 10 Location Guessing Experiment: No. of Correct Guesses for Each Word -- Appendix 11 Location Guessing Experiment: Correct Answers and Participants' Answers -- Abstract -- Index.