契丹创名研究的新发现

New Discoveries about the Research of Name Foundation of Qidan Nationality

契丹族是我国北方古老的民族之一。她曾建立了辽王朝。辽朝建立以前的契丹历史,史书记载或阙或略。由于史料不足,以至契丹族的创名,古籍中异说并存,成为辽史研究的纷歧问题。笔者将视野扩展到语言文字学领域,运用现代词典学理论,由字典辞书作者的时代推阐其所收单个字词指称对象的客观世界,发掘新的文献资料,为契丹创名再作考辨。

Qidan nationality is one of the ancient nationalities in Northern China. She has created Liao Dynasty. Before the creation, there is not enough recording about the history of Qidan. The lack of history recording led to different opinions in ancient books about name foundation of Qidan nationality, which has become a controversial problem for the research of the history of Liao. Former research only limited to looking for proof from history book. Instead, the writer extended her view to the field of philology to glean in ancient dictionaries and made use of morden lexicography theory to infer the objective world of the denotatum of the included single character from the living period of the authors of such dictionaries. According to the new discoveries, this article made textual research for name foundation of Qidan nationality.