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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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LEX1 topics for LESZ exam: 1. The English lexicon: differences between mental lexicon and dictionary. Size and structure, clues to mental lexicon. Basic units (lexeme, lexical unit/item, lemma, word, word forms). Learner's and unabridged dictionaries, structure of a dictionary entry. Core vocabulary, General Service List. 2. Syntagmatic relations in the lexicon. Compositionality. Open choice principle versus idiom principle. Syntactic properties of idioms. Idioms of decoding and idioms of encoding. Collocation and the ways of measuring its strength. Selectional restrictions, semantic anomaly. 3. Semantics. Semiotic triangle. Word meaning: descriptive (propositional) versus non-descriptive (non-truth conditional) meaning. Sense and reference, denotation, connotation, associations. Parametres of descriptive meaning, semantic features. Types of non-descriptive meaning and its treatment in dictionaries. Sentence meaning and entailment. 4. Paradigmatic lexical relations in terms of meaning relations. Complementaries and antonyms, converses and reversives. Absolute, propositional and near synonyms. Hyponym and hyperonym, hyponymy in terms of semantic features. Meronymy. Use of entailment for defining paradigmatic lexical relations. 5. Semasiological (linear and non-linear polysemy, homonymy) and onomasiological approach to lexicon (thesauri, lexical fields). Literal and non-literal meaning (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche). Ambiguity and vagueness, tests for ambiguity. Change of lexical meaning: widening/narrowing of meaning, grammaticalization. Pejoration/elevation of lexical meaning.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
- Attendace
- 24 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 26 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 50 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces basic issues, concepts and terminology essential to the study of the English vocabulary.
- concepts and terminology essential to a) the English lexicon and its structure, b)lexical semantics
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Prerequisites
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UJ00 Introduction into linguistics.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Systematic Observation of Student, Written exam
1. Attendance, home readings and Moodle quizzes 2. Final test
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Recommended literature
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Aitchison, Jean. (2012). Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 4th Edition.
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Akmajian, A., Demers, R. A., Farmer, A. K., & Harnish, R. M. (2010). Linguistics: an introduction to language and communication. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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Algeo, J., & Pyles, T. (2005). The origins and development of the English language. Boston, Mass: Thomson Wadsworth.
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Cruse, D. A. (2004). Meaning in language: an introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Radford et al. (2009). Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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Saeed, John. (2019). Semantics..
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