ketab-ol-ein, which was written by ahmad farahidi, is one of the oldest dictionaries that exist today. in the preliminary discussion we mentioned that, although historical sources show that the work of ibn abbas looks like a dictionary, it is becoming accepted that ketab-ol-ein is the first dictionary. the article starts with explanations about the life and work of khalilibn ahmad. we have also...

The question of the semantic motivation denominative relatives — significant units in prepositional function is raised article. influence on volume and structure lexical part meaning their adverbial homonyms same semes inherited from deriving name comprehended. Peculiarities semantization meanings are considered examples as a result bypassing . It proved that ambiguity ideas about largely deter...

Onomatopoeias — words that echo sounds from the extra-linguistic reality are usually understood as units representing direct relationship between form and meaning. Lexical onomatopoeias part of a language system their meaning can be found in dictionaries. It is assumed crucial communication by to infants also considered important stylistic devices poetry. However, they seem only marginal adults...

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A ‘proximate illiterate,’ i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of these differences (1) defines an illiterate person to be a proximate illiterate if he or she lives...

Deliberate contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA) is a reader’s ability to figure out a (not the) meaning of an unknown word from its “context”, without external sources of help such as dictionaries or people. The appropriate context for such CVA is the “belief-revised integration” of the reader’s prior knowledge with the reader’s “internalization” of the text. We discuss unwarranted assumptio...