文档介绍：英语词汇学教程
A Course on English Lexicology
刘荷清
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What is Lexicology?
lexicology
Lexis/lexical
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Lexicology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of the vocabulary of a given language.
It deals with words, their origins, development, structures, meanings, relations, and usages.
What is Lexicology?
Nature of Lexicology:
English lexicology is a theoretically-oriented course. However, it is a practical course as well.
What is Lexicology?
Its relation to other disciplines:
◆English lexicology has close relations with other branches of linguistics, such as ics, grammar, stylistics, and so on.
◆But it embraces other academic disciplines, such as morphology, semantics, etymology, stylistics and lexicography. Each of them has been established as a discipline in its own-right.
What is Lexicology?
Its relation to other disciplines:
ics
the study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance, that is, the study of speech sounds. It is closely related to lexicology.
Grammar
Vocabulary and grammar anically related.
The vocabulary is the building material of a language. It assumes tremendous importance when es under the control of grammar, which is connected with the modification in form of words and bination of words into sentences.
What is Lexicology?
Morphology
a branch of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words, primarily through the use of morpheme construct. This is one of the major concern s of lexicology.
Etymology
Etymology is traditionally used for the study of the origins and history of the form and meaning of words.
What is Lexicology?
Semantics
Semantics is the study of meanings of different linguistic levels: Lexis, syntax, utterance, discourse, etc. But lexicology will focus on the lexical level.
Stylistics
the study of style. It is concerned with the users’ choices of linguistic elements in a particular contexts for special effects.
What is Lexicology?
Lexicography
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