Exercise 1.
1. Analyse V. Muller's Anglo-Russian Dictionary, state what type it belongs to;
comment on the principles of selection of words, structure of dictionary entry, what
information about a word can be deduced from the dictionary entry.
2. Analyse I.R.Galperin's Big Anglo-Russian Dictionary, state what type it belongs to;
comment on the principles of selection of words, structure of dictionary entry; what
information about a word can be deduced from the dictionary entry.
3. According to the above suggested pattern (see the table) analyse the dictionaries:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Webster's New World Dictionary.
Exercise 2.
Choose one word out of the following list:
head, hand, arm, body, thing, to go,
to take, to be and analyse its dictionary entry and its semantic structure as presented in
the following dictionaries:
1. V.Muller's Anglo-Russian Dictionary;
2. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary;
3. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles
4. The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by L.S.Hornby
Answer the following questions
1 How are
the dictionary entries (for the word under analysis) built in these
dictionaries? What information is contained in the dictionary entry?
2.How many meanings constitute the semantic structure of the word? How are they
explained?
3.What meaning comes first in different dictionaries? Explain the difference, if any.
4.What shapes of meanings are registered by the dictionary (main/derived,
primary/secondary, direct/figurative, general/special).
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