ISBN: HB: 9780300162271

Yale University Press

February 2014

1376 pp.

22,9x15,2 cm

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£120.00
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Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms

This is the most innovative, comprehensive and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian and in literature from the nineteenth century to the present. The Russian idioms are provided with many English equivalents to render them in various contexts. Illustrative examples are cited to show how the idioms are used in context. Each entry also contains a grammatical description of the idiom, a definition – an innovative feature for a bilingual dictionary – and stylistic and usage information. A most notable part of the work is the alphanumeric index that makes finding the right expression very easy.

About the author

Sophia Lubensky is professor emerita of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at SUNY (Albany). She is author of "Nachalo", a basal Russian textbook with a video component (with Gerard Ervin et al.), "Advanced Russian: From Reading to Speaking" (with Irina Odintsova and Slava Paperno), and numerous articles on semantics, the Russian language, and translation.

Reviews

"A most complete Russian-English dictionary of idioms, S. I. Lubensky's 'Comprehensive Russian-English Phraseological Dictionary' [2004] offers virtually the only lexicographic description of Russian phraseology alongside its English counterpart which is based on contemporary notions of linguistically significant features of idioms. In addition to English equivalents and government patterns (for verbal idioms), this dictionary provides definitions of Russian idioms in English. The presentation of entries and principles employed to describe the idioms meet the highest lexicographic standards" – Dmitrij Dobrovolskij