理念与实践:近代汉外辞典的诞生

19世纪,新教传教士来华后,汉外辞典的编纂迎来黄金期。字典,中国古已有之。不过,19世纪以降西人编纂汉外词典,虽以字典、韵府等中国的传统名称名之,但是却赋予了西方的形式和内容,导入了全新的理念。以传教士为主导的汉外辞典编纂,不仅为中外人士——甚至包括日本人的外语学习(英语和汉语)提供了有效的手段,而且还使中国人认识到中国自古以来只有字典而无辞典的现实。19世纪汉外辞典的编纂对中西文化交流作出了重要贡献。从其辞典编纂的理念、实践、传承、对后世的影响等方面可以看到,在西学东渐的近代知识大移动中,汉语是怎样将西方的新概念变成可资利用的语词资源的。

Ideas and Practices Birth of Foreign-Chinese Language Dictionaries in Modern China

Dictionaries have been assistance to foreign language learning all the time.Jesuits to China beginning from the late 16th century have paid enormous effort to compile dictionaries for studying Chinese.Protestant missionaries arriving in China after the 19th century even made more contribution to the compilation of dictionaries.In China,dictionaries date to very ancient times.However,Yan Fu pointed out,not all nomenclature and idioms can be expressed in single-character words in our country,and therefore Pei...