《诗词曲小说语辞大典》是由
群言出版社于1993年9月1日出版的图书，作者是王贵元、叶桂刚。
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传统语言学旧称小学，小学是因于解释诸如《诗经》等先秦经典著作而诞生的。缘此，小学从它诞生日起，便与经书结下了不解之缘。发展到后代，小学家不顾大量经典著作之外作品的出现和存在，仍反来复去地钻研先秦著作，而魏晋南北朝以后，特别是唐代以后出现的诗、词、曲、小说等大量文学作品，其字词等语言疑题却很少有人问津。应当说，先秦经典著作虽经历了几千年的研究历程，但由于时代局限性等原因，并不是决，何况依据解释学的理论，解释是永无终结的。但是随着时代的发展，固有的尊崇观念发生了变化，唐以后大量的文学作品已拥有了无与比拟的读者，因此针对后代文学作品的语言研究已成为迫切的工作。大约从七九年开始，大量语言研究者把研究方向转向了后代文学作品，研究成果纷然涌现，有对专书语辞的研究，有对单类体裁作品语辞的研究；有断代性的研究，也有溯源推变性的研究。经过众多学者十余年的努力，成果已相当可观，出现了《
敦煌变文字义通释》（蒋礼鸿）、《
诗词曲语辞例释》（王瑛）、《元曲释词》（顾学颉、王学奇）等优秀论著。但是迄今为止，还没有一部较为系统全面的辞书问世，这不仅给读者查阅带来诸多不便，而且不利于近代语言词学的研究。为此，我们编纂了《诗词曲小说语辞大典》。本辞典以唐以后直至清末为时代界线，单词释义律及所有体裁的文学作品。在充分吸收前人已有定论的优秀成果的基础上，依据本书体例作了新的考释和分合。