诺亚·韦伯斯特版韦氏词典的编撰特点

本文从语言学的角度对诺亚·韦伯斯特编撰的韦氏词典的编撰特点进行了深入而全面的综合研究,并得出了以下结论:该版韦氏词典具有选词宽泛精确、选词规范、词汇美国化、百科化等一系列的特征,顺应了当时语言发展的需要。

The paper studies Noah Webster s American Dictionary of the English Language thoroughly and comprehensively,and comes to a conclusion that the dictionary fea-tures wide collections,precise explanations,Americanized glossary and instrumen-tal encyclopedia section,which fits it into the trend of the contemporary language development.