Michael Rundell

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Michael Rundell has been a professional lexicographer since 1980, working on a wide range of dictionaries. His special area is monolingual English dictionaries designed for learners. He has managed complex dictionary projects for a number of leading British publishers including Longman and Macmillan, and has been involved in the design and development of several major language corpora.

He has taught lexicography and lexical computing, both on university courses and in shorter workshops, and has written numerous papers on lexicographic issues and on the use of corpora in English language teaching.

In addition to his training and project-management work with LexMC, Michael has been Lexicographic Adviser to Bloomsbury Publishing plc. since 1997, leading the development of a new family of learners' dictionaries for Macmillan Education. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (MED) published in 2002 - a multi-million-pound project, and the first major ELT dictionary to be created from scratch for almost 10 years. In this role, he set up, resourced, and managed the project from start to finish. His responsibilities included developing corpus resources, corpus-querying software, and dictionary-writing software, as well co-ordinating the input from over 100 contributors (software suppliers, computational linguists, expert advisers, editors and proofreaders, phoneticians, and illustrators). The MED has been a critical (as well as a commercial) success, winning both the Duke of Edinburgh/English Speaking Union English Language Book Award (2002) and a British Council Innovation Award (2004).



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"Slumped in front of the telly"
Mike Rundell 11 January 2000

One of the British tabloids recently carried a story about a family who called the fire brigade when smoke was seen issuing from an upstairs room. While the firefighters dealt with the blaze, the family remained in the house because they didn't want to miss the last 10 minutes of Coronation Street. But the report did not simply describe them as "watching television". No, they were "glued to the goggle box" and "staring at the screen".

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The biggest corpus of all
Mike Rundell 17 May 2000

For anyone who occasionally needs to check out a word or phrase but doesn't have access to corpus data and corpus software, a number of free alternatives are available on the web. For a start, you can run online "guest" searches on either the British National Corpus or on the Bank of English by visiting their respective websites (http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc, http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_info.html). You can search for single words or for phrases of any (reasonable) length, and you can to some extent specify the text type you are interested in (for example, by asking the search-engine to look only at journalistic sources). As in most "demo versions", the output is deliberately limited in order to encourage you to opt for the full package: both systems offer a full, and very sophisticated, online service ?but you have to pay for it. But even with these limitations ?you will only get back 40-50 corpus lines for any inquiry ?both these sites are a good starting point for the occasional corpus query. Even 50 contextualized examples of going to would be a good basis for some useful hypothesis-testing.

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