This Routledge Linguistics Classic includes a substantial new introductory chapter situating the book in the current digital age. How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. The new chapter covers changes and developments in related fields from lexicography and corpus linguistics to vocabulary testing and assessment. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives has been widely praised since first publication for the breadth, depth and clarity of its approach and is a key text for postgraduate students and researchers studying vocabulary studies within the fields of English Language, Applied Linguistics and Education.