Research On The Meanings Of High-Frequency Nouns In The Complete Works Of The Editorials In People's Daily

The Complete Works Of The Editorials In People's Daily has been given a pubilishment ceremony on December 18, 2013, it includes all of the 7208 editorials of People's Daily from June 15, 1948 the starting publication to December 31, 2012. It is the first complete works of the editorials of party newspapers with no deletion since it reveals the People's Republic of China's every periods' visage from the angle of party newspaper's criticism, and records the People's Republic of China's growing course with news historical facts. It has irreplaceable historical and academic values. And it's very authoritative.518 high-frequency nouns has been extracted through the HyConcV3.9.9 processing software and manual intervention combined treatment, to reveal that the rules of features of the meanings of high-frequency nouns in The Complete Works Of The Editorials In People's Daily, and thus help to understand the social historical appearance in editorials. In The Complete Works Of The Editorials In People's Daily's five periods divided by itself, among them there are 3 in the Liberation-war Period, 139 in the National Economic Recovery and Socialist Transformation Period, 183 in the Period of All-round Socialist Construction, 67 in the Period of “Cultural Revalution”, 126 in the Period of Ending wandering to Reform and Opening-up.In the process of study on the terms of these high frequency, Fu Huaiqing's analysis on meaning and description theory model of lexical components-lexical structure analys provided a good theoretical support for the meaning system of high frequency noun of editorial. The high frequency nouns which have common class word in their explanations in each period can be divided into many categorys like class word is “criterions”, ” principles”, or class word is “activities”, or class word is “national”, “regional” and so on. And for high frequency nouns do not have common class words, can be divided into two cases, one is a group of two, one word itself is the other one's class words in explanation; another is the class words in their explanations completely unrelated. For the second case,sorted them based on Lin Xingguang's “Chinese multipurpose Dictionary”'s Classification schema. In this way, the high-frequency nouns in The Complete Works Of The Editorials In People's Daily composed an interrelated system in accordance with the characteristics of their meanings. Then the analysis of word meaning can be work in a methodical way in this system.Through the study of the meaning of high-frequency nouns in five periods, it can be found that:(a) Most of the high-frequency nouns in the editorial are univocal, even some nouns are polysemous words, but most of editorials use only one meaning;(b) There are new high-frequency nouns in each period, the number of high-frequency nouns in these five periods is not increasing, but there are new high-frequency nouns appearing in each period. From the meaning of words, the new high frequency nouns in each period reflect the new objects that were concerned by the editorial at that time;(c) The repetitive high-frequency nouns reflect what has always been concerned about in editorials, the development of society determines the editorial's words, conversely the high-frequency words in editorial also reflects our country's constant attention object in the course of development;(d) Those high-frequency nouns appeared only once reflects the different characteristics of our country in different periods, these words basically records of different objects in different periods of our country except the last aperiod's which can not be determined, others flashed in the high-frequency nouns of editorial, and provide reference frame for researches on our party history.The meanings of high-frequency nouns and the specific context compared with each other during the course of the study, it provides convenience to understand the articles.Each period of the same and different high frequency noun composition of the editorial high-frequency nouns system. This also enlighten us to trace back the objective history through various concerns reflected by editorials and to guide direction of national conditions and public opinions when we write the editorial in the future.