The Oxford Essential Polish Dictionary is a new compact Polish-English and English-Polish dictionary that offers up-to-date coverage of all the essential day-to-day vocabulary, with over 46,00 words, phrases, and 57,000 translations. This dictionary is easy to use and ideal for students, travel, and quick reference.

This volume publishes the proceedings of the International Scientific Conference held in Kostroma from March 18 to 20, 2004. The sections of the collection include: 1. Plenary Session Papers (V.M. Mokienko, A.M. Melerovich, H. Walter, et al.); 2. Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Phraseology Studies (M.A. Alekseenko, B. Badamtsetseg, E.V. Blinova, et al.); 3. Phraseology and Context (L.N....

The book was written by one of the dictionary’s authors. ‘At the heart of this work lies an original and highly intriguing concept: to reveal to the reader the ‘creative workshop’ that—invisible to the naked eye—stands behind the *Orthoepic Dictionary of the Russian Language*—one of the most significant achievements of Russian lexicography in the second half of the 20th century’ (A. A. Zaliznyak).

The collection *V.I. Dal and the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature* comprises speeches delivered at Society meetings by P.I. Melnikov-Pechersky and I.S. Aksakov—all dedicated to V.I. Dal—as well as scholarly studies examining Dal’s collaboration with the Society, the Society’s contribution to the development of linguistics and folklore studies between 1811 and 1930, and contemporary...