LECTURES ON ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY INTRODUCTION The book is intended for English language students at Pedagogical Universities taking the course of English lexicology and fully meets the requirements of the programme in the subject. It may also be of interest to all readers‚ whose command of English is sufficient to enable them to read texts of average difficulty and who would like to gain some information about the vocabulary resources of Modern English (for example‚ about synonyms and antonyms)
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Units 18 § 1.5 The Notion of Lexical System 21 § 1.6 The Theory of Oppositions 25 Part One THE ENGLISH WORD AS A STRUCTURE Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Word as the Basic Unit of Language ... 27 § 2.1 The Definition of the Word 27 § 2.2 Semantic Triangle 31 § 2.3 Phonetic‚
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Quiz #1 Answer all of the following. Each is worth ½ point. 1 Our mothers bore us. A) Semantic Ambiguity B) Syntactic Ambiguity C) Grouping Ambiguity D) No ambiguity 2 I thought your driveway was longer than it is. A) Semantic Ambiguity B) Syntactic Ambiguity C) Grouping Ambiguity D) No ambiguity 3 Newspaper headline: Unskilled Workers Get Shot at Jobs. A) Semantic Ambiguity B) Syntactic Ambiguity C) Grouping Ambiguity D) No ambiguity 4 Generally
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perspective‚ are groups of words that share the same orthographical and phonological characteristics‚ yet do not share the same semantic meaning. There are a number of theoretical perspectives pertaining to the root cause of how two separate word meanings are able to converge on the same phonological representation‚ or how a single word is able to separate into diverse and separate semantic meanings. But the term ’polysemy’ refers to something that is intrinsically more complex‚ and as Klein and Murphy
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CHANGE Of MEANING Word-meaning is liable to change in the course of the historical development of language. Changes of lexical meaning may be illustrated by a diachronic semantic analysis of many commonly used English words. The word fond (OE. fond) used to mean ‘foolish’‚ ‘foolishly credulous’; glad (OE‚ glaed) had the meaning of ‘bright’‚ ’shining’ and so on. Change of meaning has been thoroughly studied and as a matter of fact monopolised the attention of all semanticists whose work up to the
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its connection with phonetics‚ grammar‚ stylistics & contrastive linguistics. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that deals with the lexical component of language. The lexicon holds information about the phonetic‚ phonological‚ syntactic‚ semantic and pragmatic properties of words and consequently has a central role in these levels of analysis. It is also a major area of investigation in other areas of linguistics‚ such as psycholinguistics‚ typological linguistics and language acquisition
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particular case of the semantic level‚ one must specify: a) the sense components ‚ the constructional rules for building complex meaning out of the more elementary meanings and a semantic representation of words and sentences. Lexical semantics precisely contributes an interpretation of phrases like: arrow‚ student‚ novel‚ etc. Structuralist semantics worked under the at the time novel hypothesis that meanings are decomposable‚ and proposed two complementary methods of semantic analysis: componential
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particularly important to study the semantic characteristics and pragmatic functions of synonymy in media discourse‚ whose basic text is a news item. The aim of this course paper is to determine the semantic potential of synonyms in the electronic version of the English media discourse and the nature of their implementation in the studied form of communication based on the study of their functioning. The aim of the study
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have worked out a comprehensive review of different types of word-groupings suggested in modern linguistics‚ both in the country and abroad. A short survey of formal and semantic types of groupings with a word-stock will help you in obtaining an idea of the lexical system in general. One of the earliest and most obvious non-semantic grouping is the alphabetical organization of the word-stock‚ which is represented in most dictionaries. It is of great practical value in the search for the necessary
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The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise: An Overview* Vyvyan Evans‚ Benjamin K. Bergen and Jörg Zinken [In press for 2006. To be published in ‘The Cognitive Linguistics Reader’‚ by Equinox Publishing Company] 1. Introduction Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought and practice. It is concerned with investigating the relationship between human language‚ the mind and socio-physical experience. It originally emerged in the 1970s (Fillmore 1975‚ Lakoff & Thompson 1975‚ Rosch 1975)
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