A Study Of Homographs Based On New Words In Modern Chinese Dictionary

Modern Chinese Dictionary(hereinafter called “Xian Han”)as a medium-sized dictionary of Chinese standard in our country,contains mostly common vocabulary in Mandarin.The academia often only focus on the new words,ignore the rational research on the disappear of the old words when researching the different editions of Xian Han,and they do not pay attention to the homograph in the new words at the same time.Therefore,this paper are based on the new words in the different editions of Xian Han,counts all the homographs in it,separately studies the unchanged and changed homographs.The focus of the unchanged homographs is to study the meaning of the words;the modified homographs are to study the rationality of their changes.This paper is divided into four parts.The first part involve the definition and distinction of homograph.Based on various definitions of homograph,the broad definition is adopted.Clarified the difference between homographs and polysemous,the cross relationship with homophones.The second part includes the new words and the homographs in the different editions of Xian Han.Regarding the corpus of the new words in the different editions of Xian Han,comprehensive academic research on the status of new words in the different editions of Xian Han,and has determined the criteria for the newly added words,selected the corpus in it.After proofreading,156 groups of homographs were sorted out refer to the dictionary instructions and classified according to the changes after addition,until the latest edition remained unchanged 129 groups,27 groups changed after addition.The third part classified the objects into homograph,analysis the words that have maintained the identity of homograph since it were added to the latest edition.Regardless of homonym or homograph,they are first classified by part of speech,then in accordance with the way of word formation and the definitions of entries in the seventh edition of Xian Han,decompose the meaning of each group of homograph by morpheme,finally,combine the CCL corpus to explain the pragmatics of the vocabulary.The fourth part is to analyze the homograph entries that have changed after addition,these entries have been deleted or the meanings have been added or deleted,explore the rationality of these changes.Through a comprehensive analysis,we discovered the existing problems in the compilation of homograph in Xian Han,for items that should be treated as polysemous words,some homographs should be added to items,and some homograph in dialect words or written language symbols are incorrectly marked,give reasonable advice to continuously improve the quality of Modern Chinese Dictionary.