Loudi Dialect Dictionary: Modern Chinese Dialect Dictionary · Volume

Author: Li Rong
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Publish Date: 1998-12-01
Features: The dialect dictionary is based on dialect surveys. The survey first identifies pronunciation collaborators. The collaborators are selected from the elderly and middle-aged, but young people are not excluded. The former is used to determine the phonetic system and record the corpus; the latter is used to supplement vocabulary while explaining the differences between the phonetic system and the former. The survey forms include two types: character tables and word tables. The former adopts the publicly published "Dialect Survey Character Table," while the latter is a newly compiled "Dialect Survey Word Table" specifically for this book. The single characters and words listed in these two tables are as far as possible to clarify whether they can be spoken in the local dialect. Only in this way can the corpus of different regions be compared for similarities and differences. These corpora are merely the largest common denominator for the regional dictionaries. The compilers of each regional dictionary have ample space to extensively collect the phonetic forms and lexical items of the local dialect. The requirements for the regional dialect dictionaries are two: one is to prepare conditions for the comprehensive dialect dictionary, and the other is to reflect the characteristics of the local dialect. The content of the regional dialect dictionaries is divided into three parts: the main body is the dictionary proper, preceded by an introduction, followed by a category index and a index of entries.