English dictionaries as cultural mines : [... the Lexis conference (The study of lexicon across cultural identities and textual genres) held on 11 13 November 2010 at the University of Verona where the eleven chapters of this book were originally delivered] Discusses the role of dictionaries in the identification and expression of cultural aspects in language with special reference to English. As such its eleven chapters have been arranged to focus on general genre specific monolingual and bilingual lexicography both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective Cover page [4]