By studying the vocabulary of rot and decay, the opportunity presents itself to engage one of the fundamental beliefs of the Egyptian culture from the aspect of its frst principles. The reason why this matters is beca...
As the rapid development of human society, thousands of new words are coined in English language every day by applying the word-formation devices to express new ideas. Lexicographers need to decide how to face the pro...
Ambivalent words are a common phenomenon objectively existing in most of the languages in the world.The previous studies mainly focus on the following questions:Do ambivalent words really exist?How many types of ambiv...
Inspired by Phil Benson's study on the relations between ethnocentrism and the China-related entries in the OED2, this paper attempts to further examine how the image of China, a so--called "peripheral object of Wes...
Semantic prosody is the associative meaning resulting from its collocates and is partially recorded in English leamer's dictionaries. In spite of the proliferation of the researches on semantic prosody, most of the p...