Lesson11ButWhat’sDictionaryfor.pptVIP

Lesson 11 But What’s Dictionary for;;Webster’s Third New International Dictionary ;II. Detailed study of the text;Paragraph 1 Comments on the coming (publication) of the third New International;Detailed Study of the textPart 1: ( 1-3 ): Opening paragraphs: raising the question;;Lecture 2 ;Statement 1: (para 4) A dictionary is concerned with words Statement 2: (para 5)… there has been even more progress in the making of dictionaries in the past thirty years than there has been in the making of automobiles….is not like the difference between yearly models but like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile ;Between the much-touted Second International (1943) and the much-clouted Third International (1961): assonance and antithesis. Much-touted means much-praised and much-clouted means much-attacked. The two phrases are close in pronunciation(cold,killed) but opposite in meaning. The horse and buggy: It represents the period before motor vehicles came into use. A buggy is a light carriage pulled by one horse.;Para.6-7 From the perspective of linguistics to prove the principles of making a dictionary;Descriptive linguistics; Linguistics is the science of language, including phonology(音韵学)morphology(词法学), syntax (句法学)，and semantics(词义学）It is sub-divided into descriptive, historical, comparative, geographical, social, applied, etc. linguistics. Descriptive linguistics is the branch of linguistics which describes the structure of a language or languages as they exist, without reference to their histories or to comparison with other languages.;What are the new findings of the descriptive linguistics? (Para.7) 1.Alll languages are systems of human________; 2.Each language is unique in its ___,___, and vocabulary; 3.All languages are dynamic rather than _________; 4.Correctness can rest only upon________. ;All languages are systems of human conventions, not systems of natural laws: All languages have rules about how to form words and how t