Exercises and tasks

Exercise 1. Analyse the dictionary according to the following plan:

1. Title, place and year of publication.

2. The objectives of the dictionary.

3. The total number of entries.

4. What are the sections?

5. What is the structure of a dictionary entry?

6. In what way is pronunciation explained? (International system or other)

7. Is etymology of the word provided? What is the system of etymological labels?

8. Are all derivatives given in the entry?

9. Are there compounds in the entry?

10. Are there idioms in the entry and in what way are they placed?

11. What is the quality of the definitions and explanation?

12. What specific labels are there in the dictionary? (archaisms, jargonisms, colloquialisms, terms, Americanisms).

13. Are there any supplements?

14. What is your point of view of the dictionary?

Exercise 2. Study the structure of the entry of Roget's Thesaurus. What does the entry include?

Exercise 3. Choose a word from the list: hand, arm, thing, to go, to be, and analyze its dictionary entry and its semantic structure in the following dictionaries:

· Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language

· Illustrated Oxford Dictionary

· Zagnitko A.P., Danylyuk I.G. Великий сучасний англо-український, українсько-англійський словник.

Exercise 4. Examine the following entry for discriminate, taken from CED (1998):

discriminate vb [dɪ'skrɪmɪ.neɪt]. 1 (intr, usu. followed by in favour of or against) to single out a particular person, group, etc., for special favour or, esp., disfavour, often because of a characteristic such as race, colour, sex, intelligence, etc. 2 (when intr, followed by between or among) to recognize or understand the difference (between); distinguish: to discriminate right and wrong; to discriminate between right and wrong. 3 (intr) to constitute or mark a difference. 4 (intr) to be discerning in matters of taste. 5 showing or marked by discrimination. [C17: from Latin discriminare to divide, from discrimen a separation, from discernere to DISCERN] > dis'criminately adv > dis'crimi,nator n

What information does it give about: pronunciation, morphology, syntax?

Exercise 5. Examine the entries for the following words in two or three dictionaries of a

similar size: height, nucleus, subjective.

How many numbered meanings does each dictionary identify, and do they identify the same range of meanings?

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