English Lexicology in Theory and Practice = Лексикология английского языка. Теория и практика (200,00 руб.)

ВЛАВАЦКАЯ ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Утверждено Редакционно-издательским советом университета в качестве учебного пособия НОВОСИБИРСК 2010 1 ББК 81.432.1-3-923 В 57 Работа подготовлена на кафедре иностранных языков гуманитарного факультета Новосибирского государственного технического университета Рецензенты: кандидат филологических наук, зав. кафедрой иностранных языков СибАГС, профессор Н. <...> English Lexicology in Theory and Practice : учеб. пособие / М. <...> Его изучение проводится в соответствии с количеством часов, предусмотренных учебным планом. 11 INTRODUCTION LEXICOLOGY AS A PART OF LINGUISTICS. <...> KEY TERMS Lexicology, word, vocabulary, General Lexicology, Special Lexicology, Historical Lexicology, Descriptive Lexicology, Comparative Lexicology, Contrastive Lexicology, Combinatorial Lexicology, Applied Lexicology, functional approach, synchronic (descriptive) approach, diachronic (historical) approach, morpheme, word-group, phraseological unit, paradigm, lexico-semantic variant. 1. <...> LEXICOLOGY: CENTRAL TERMS The term «lexicology» is composed of two Greek morphemes: lexis meaning „word, phrase‟ (hence lexicos „having to do with words‟) and logos which denotes „learning, a department of knowledge‟. <...> The central terms of Lexicology are: – word – the basic unit of a language resulting from the association of a particular meaning with a particular group of sounds capable of a particular 12 grammatical employment. <...> The word is a structural and semantic entity within the language system; – vocabulary – the system formed by the total sum of all the words that the language possesses. 2. <...> PARTS AND AREAS OF LEXICOLOGY Lexicology is concerned with words, variable word-groups, phraseological units, and with morphemes which make up words. <...> There are two main parts of Lexicology: – General Lexicology is part of General Linguistics, which is concerned with the study of vocabulary irrespective of the specific features of any particular language; – Special Lexicology is the Lexicology of a particular language (English, Russian, etc.), i.e. the study and description of its vocabulary and vocabulary units, primarily words as the main units of language. <...> It studies the functions of words and their specific structures as a characteristic inherent in the system; – Comparative Lexicology studies closely related languages from the point of view of relationships between language families (such as Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Germanic and Romance languages <...>