Лексикография английского языка. Моисеев М.В. - 26 стр.

      11) Какие другие словари выпускаются компанией Merriam                  nel by which the waters of a stream are discharged into a lake or ocean;
на базе больших словарей?                                                     (d) the entrance of a harbor; (e) the opening between the cheeks or jaws
      12) Какой американский словарь, по мнению, многих лекси-                of a vice.
кографов не уступает лучшим толковым словарям?                                       3. The mouth of a person considered as the instrument of
      13) Почему словарь Century следует считать толково-энцикло-             speaking; as, the story is in everyone’s mouth.
педическим?                                                                          4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; an
      14) Чем мотивированы значительные изменения в структуре                 oracle.
словаря Фанка?                                                                       5. Cry; voice; manner of speaking.
      15) Чем отличалось словарная статья в A Standard Dictionary                    6. A wry face; as, to make a mouth.
of the English Language от классических образцов порядка распо-                      7. Speech; testimony.
ложения материала?                                                                   8. The crossbar of the bit of a bridle, uniting the rings or the
                                                                              branches.
      Задание 2. Расположите в хронологической последователь-                        By mouth or by word of mouth; by speech as distinguished
ности американские словари (начиная с самого раннего):                        from writing.
      1) A Standard Dictionary of the English Language издательства                  To be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth; to be born to
Funk and Wagnalls Co.;                                                        wealth, luxury, or good fortune.
      2) The Century dictionary. An encyclopedic lexicon of the
English language;                                                                    Задание 4. Прочитайте приведенный в этом задании отрывок
      3) Worcester’s Large Dictionary of the English Language;                из статьи профессора Р.А. Холла. Укажите какие достоинства
      4) A compendius dictionary of the English language by                   Webster’s Third New International Dictionary отмечает Холл в своей
N. Webster;                                                                   статье, в чем он видит причины критики данного словаря. (Холл –
      5) An American Dictionary of the English Language by                    известный американский специалист в области лингвистики. Он
N. Webster;                                                                   являлся профессором лингвистики Университета Корнелл.)
      6) Webster’s Third New International Dictionary;                               «Webster’s Third New International Dictionary marks a great
      7) Webster’s Second International Dictionary.                           step forward in the direction of telling the truth about the vocabulary of
                                                                              English. What does one want to know about a word? First of all, what it
      Задание 3. Изучите словарную статью из словаря Уэбстера.                means; also how it is spelled, how it is pronounced, and what its origin
Подготовьте сообщение об особенностях ее построения и охарак-                 is. The new Webster’s performs all these tasks better than its
теризуйте ее достоинства и недостатки.                                        predecessors. Its editors have done an excellent job in taking into
      Mouth, n.; pl. mouths. [AS. muth; compare Ice, muthr, munnr,            account all the extensive variations that exist in American English, both
mouth].                                                                       standard and nonstandard. In their very careful definitions, they have
      1. The aperture at which food is taken into digestive system of         taken actual present-day meaning as their point of departure. They have
an animal: in most vertebrates the aperture between the lips or the           wisely recognized a far greater gradation in levels of usage than has
portion of the face formed by the lips; also the cavity within the lips.      been customary. They have recognized the fact that no single standard
      2. Anything resembling a mouth in position or use, as (a) the           can truthfully be said to exist for American English as a whole, and
opening of anything hollow, as a jar, a well, a mine, a cave, etc.; (b) the   have given extensive recognition to variant in pronunciation and
opening of a gun at the end from which the charge issues; (c) the chan-

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