| The Senator Was Indiscreet is a novel written by Li Baojia in the late Qing Dynasty.The language of the document is popular and straightforward,using a large number of dialect words and slang and folk proverbs,which has strong colloquialism.This paper examines the colloquial words in The Senator Was Indiscreet,and carried out comprehensive statistics and sorting.Combined with the actual situation of colloquial words,this paper discusses the problems existing in the collection,interpretation and supplement of words in the Chinese dictionary,in order to present the basic appearance of the colloquial words in officialdom.First of all,this paper combs the research results of The Senator Was Indiscreet from the perspective of linguistics.It also attempts to define the colloquial words in the literature,and describes the research value of colloquial words in The Senator Was Indiscreet.Secondly,this paper collects and arranges all the colloquial words in The Senator Was Indiscreet.This paper describes the general situation of colloquial words,and analyzes them from two aspects: part of speech and syllable structure.Thirdly,this paper makes a semantic classification of colloquial words in The Senator Was Indiscreet.This paper explains the semantic origin and evolution of colloquial words from the perspective of diachrony and synchrony.Finally,combined with the actual situation of colloquial words in the literature,this paper discusses the value of colloquial words in The Senator Was Indiscreet in compiling dictionaries and seal characters.The collected words are summarized,and the lost words,meanings and documentary evidence that can be advanced are sorted out and summarized. |