The Study Of The New Words In The Sixth Edition Of Modern Chinese Dictionary

Modern Chinese Dictionary(the sixth edition), compared with the fifth edition, adds3251new words. From the perspective of syllable, the number of monosyllable words, monosyllablewords,trisyllable words, quadrisyllable words, quinquesyllable words, sexisyllable words andwords above seven syllables are respectively2,1868,609,627,37,12and10.From theperspective of part of speech, the new words includes nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,pronouns, preps, conjunctions and etc. The distribution of the number of syllables and thegender of new words reflect a change of vocabulary for dictionary as well as the co-variationbetween the languages and society.Modern Chinese Dictionary (the sixth edition) covers a widesemantic field including, politics, economy, law, art, education. sports, communication,construction, environment-protection, social life, social community, social welfare, science andtechnology, religion, networks and etc. On one hand,the semantic field that the new wordscover can reflect the new changes and phenomena in different fields.On the other hand,this alsodemonstrates the different social concerns for different fields in different historicalperiods.Modern Chinese Dictionary(the sixth edition) from the perspective of origins of thenew words in the Modern Chinese Dictionary(the sixth edition), apart from the new wordsfrom the common language area and those new embodied old terms, most of them come fromdialect and foreign languages. The sixth edition has gathered words from different dialects.Thison one side illustrates that dialects have a good interactive relationship with mandarin.They candraw on each other and seek common development;On the other side,this also illustrates thatdifferent dialects are affected by different factors in different periods and they may showdifferent degrees of vigor. The sixth edition also gathered words from many foreignlanguages.These new words can show,to some extent,the intimacy and influence between otherlanguages and Chinese as well as the interaction and mutual influence between Chinese andother languages in the course of contact.Modern Chinese Dictionary(the sixth edition) followsand respects the actual social language life, timely reflects the new things, new phenomenons,new relationships and new recognitions in social language life. Under the guidance of scientificview of specification, it adds new words selectively which is just the positive practice andscientific validation for the language specification. Surely,whether the large quantity of thevariants and the polysyllable words will pose a threat to its quality or not waits to be checkedgradually in actual use.