The Compilation Of A Primary Chinese-Armenian Pedagogical Dictionary

In recent years more and more Armenians are learning Chinese.For them the huge number of Chinese characters is a major challenge.As no Chinese-Armenian dictionary has ever been published,they can only consult Chinese-Russian dictionaries,which are not very convenient for Armenian learners of Chinese to use.The compilation of A Primary Chinese-Armenian Pedagogical Dictionary serves to fill a gap in Armenian lexicography and provide a useful teaching and learning resource book for both teachers and learners of Chinese in Armenia,so that the teaching and learning of the Chinese characters and the Chinese language may become more interesting and less challenging.This dictionary contains as entry heads the most basic 1,141 Chinese characters in the General Service List of Regularized Chinese Characters(2013)and over 3,000 Chinese words composed of two or more of these characters as identified by Liu Min(2015).To facilitate the systematic teaching of Chinese characters,in terms of its macrostructure,the dictionary divides the entry heads into pointing words,notional lexemes and particles.Pointing words include all words that have a indexical or substitutive function.Notional lexemes are grouped into names of human body parts,animals,plants,artifacts,natural phenomena,social phenomena,attributes,states and action,and are labeled as nouns,adjective,notional verbs,notional adverbs,which can independently serve a syntactic function,and bound stems,which cannot do so.Particles are grouped into question words,determiners,subjective verbs,subjective adverbs,conjunctions,adpositions,and affixes.Within each group,the entry heads are arranged,as proposed by Zhao Guanrui(2014),in the order of the sequence of the most basic strokes of Chinese script,i.e.(?)and their variants+ the number of strokes.In terms of its microstructure,each entry provides information about the pronunciation of the head,its character formation,the evolution of the script,grammatical labelling(of its morpho-syntactic feature and the sub-category it belongs to),definitions and collocations.The macro-and micro-structures of the dictionary are not only applicable to a primay Chinese-Armenian pedagogical dictionary,but also a model for other primary Chinese-foreign-language pedagogical dictionaries and even primary Chinese pedagogical dictionaries.