Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Education, Culture and Social Sciences (ECSS 2019)

On Entries for Neologisms in English-Chinese Learner’s Dictionaries

Authors
Ying Cai
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Ying Cai
Available Online April 2019.
DOI
10.2991/ecss-19.2019.105How to use a DOI?
Keywords
COCA; neologism; entry; learner’s dictionary.
Abstract

New words are entering the English language at an ever-increasing rate. This paper specifically discusses how neologisms are presented in an English-Chinese learner’s dictionary to cater for the learners’ needs. Based on Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the researcher analyzes how these new words are used in the main five genres: spoken texts, fiction, magazines, newspapers and academic journals. In light of the results of the discussion and analysis, several practical suggestions are put forward to optimize the entries for neologisms in English-Chinese learner’s dictionaries.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Education, Culture and Social Sciences (ECSS 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
April 2019
ISBN
10.2991/ecss-19.2019.105
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ecss-19.2019.105How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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