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Tham khảo sách 'the oxford dictionary of new words: a popular guide to words in the news', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The Oxford Dictionary of New Words A popular guide to words in the news PREFACE Preface This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings to have been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting to record the history of some recent additions to the language but unlike the Supplement it is necessarily very selective in the words phrases and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands as an independent work unrelated except in the resources it draws upon to the Oxford English Dictionary. The aim of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words is to provide an informative and readable guide to about two thousand high-profile words and phrases which have been in the news during the past decade rather than simply defining these words as dictionaries of new words have tended to do in the past it also explains their derivation and the events which brought them to prominence illustrated by examples of their use in journalism and fiction. In order to do this it draws on the published and unpublished resources of the Oxford English Dictionary the research that is routinely carried out in preparing new entries for that work and the word-files and databases of the Oxford Dictionary Department. What is a new word This of course is a question which can never be answered satisfactorily any more than one can answer the question How long is a piece of string It is a commonplace to point out that the language is a constantly changing resource growing in some areas and shrinking in others from day to day. The best one can hope to do in a book of this kind is to take a snapshot of the words and senses which seem to characterize our age and which a reader in fifty or a hundred years time might be unable to understand fully even if these words were entered in standard dictionaries without a more expansive explanation of their social political or cultural context. For the .