Программа дисциплины ДПП. Ф.04 Лексикология (стр. 5 )

Make up a scheme of the types of homonyms. Make up a scheme of the sources of homonyms. Make up a scheme of the criteria for discriminating between homonymy and polysemy. Learn the terms on the topic from the list of terms.

XI. Synonyms in English

Контрольные вопросы

What are the criteria of synonymity? What is the semantic criterion? What types of semantic similarity and difference are possible? What degree of semantic similarity is necessary? What is the functional criterion? What degree of functional similarity is necessary? What types of synonyms are there? What is the sunonymic dominant? What are the sources of synonymy in English?

Задания для самостоятельной работы

Make up a scheme of the types of synonyms. Make up a scheme of the sources of synonyms. Learn the terms on the topic from the list of terms.

XII. Antonyms in English. Conversives

Контрольные вопросы

How are antonyms defined? What types of opposition between notions can antonyms be based on? What are antonyms proper? What type of opposition underlies them? What are complementary terms? What type of opposition are they based on? What are the semantic and functional differences between antonyms proper and complementary terms? How are antonyms classified from the morphological point of view? What are the semantic types of antonyms? What types of antonymic context are there? What are conversives?

Задания для самостоятельной работы

Give the example of contrary and contradictory notions. Illustrate by the scale. Make up a scheme of the classification of antonyms according to the logical, morphological and semantic approaches. Give examples of conversives and explain them. Learn the terms on the topic from the list of terms.

XIII. English phraseology

Контрольные вопросы

What is the place of phraseological units in language with regard to words and free word-groups? What are the criteria of phraseology? What is stability of a phraseological unit? What is idiomaticity of a phraseological unit? Do proverbs belong to phraseology? Are phrasal verbs a part of the phraseological system? What classifications have been used in the study of phraseology? What types of phraseological units are there from the functional point of view? What classification dud V. V.Vinogradov suggest? What are its faults and merits? What are the principals of A. V. Koonin’s approach of the study phraseology? What are the sources of phraseology in English?

Задания для самостоятельной работы

Make up a scheme of the criteria of phraseology. Make up a scheme of the functional classification of phraseological units. Make up a scheme of the semantic classification of phraseological units by V. V. Vinogradov. Make up a scheme of the classification of phraseological units based on functional, structural and semantic criteria suggested by A. V. Koonin. Make up a scheme of the origin of phraseological units. Learn the terms on the topic from the list of terms.

XIV. Lexical peculiarities of local varieties of English

Контрольные вопросы

Where is English spoken nowadays? What is meant by the phrase «English as a global language»? What is the historical background of the formation of the lexical system of American English? What are «pure Americanisms»? What relations exist between the lexical units of AE and BE? What are the peculiarities of American English word-building system? What is status of American (Canadian, Australian) English? What are the relations between the different varieties of English nowadays?

Задания для самостоятельной работы

Prepare a presentation on one of the topics:

Territorial varieties of the English language. Dialects and variants. Historical background of the British English and American English divergence. Some phonetic and grammatical divergences between British English and American English. Lexical divergences between British English and American English. The status of American English.

XV. English lexicography

Контрольные вопросы

What is the history of English lexicography? What types of dictionaries are there? What types of linguistic dictionaries are there according to: the target reader; the choice of lexical units to be included in the word list; the type of information suggested in the entry; the language used in the right-hand part of the entry?

4. What are the main problems of lexicography?

Задания для самостоятельной работы

Analyse any type of dictionary you like: its type, the choice of the headwords, the sort of information contained in the right-hand part of the entry, arrangement of information, its value for prospective users. Analyse one dictionary entry.

8.2.2. Примерный перечень вопросов к экзамену

Amelioration and pejoration of meaning. Antonyms in English. Archaisms in English. Back formation. Classification of phraseological ponential structure of position. Contextual analysis. Types of context. Conversion. Derivation (Affixation). Discrimination between homonymy and polysemy. English outside Great Britain. English slang. General characteristics of English vocabulary. The volume of the vocabulary and its use. General etymological characteristics of English vocabulary. Native word-stock of English. General problems of English phraseology. Criteria of phraseology. Sources of phraseology. General problems of meaning; meaning as the object of study of linguistics; definition; types of linguistic meaning. General problems of word-theory. Aspects of the word; the problem of the definition of the word. Homonyms in English. Types of homonyms. Hyperbole, litotes, irony, euphemism. International words. Hybrids. Etymological doublets. Metaphor. Metonymy. Morphemes in English; types of morphemes; free and bound forms; allomorphs; semi-affixes; dubious cases of morphemic segmentability. Morphemic types of words. Method of morphemic analysis. Neologisms in English. Polysemy and semantic structure of the word. Polysemy and context. Semantic change: its types and causes. Results of semantic change. Shortening. Sources and ways of borrowing in English. Specialization and generalization of meaning. Stylistic differentiation of English vocabulary. Synonyms in English. The formal layer of English vocabulary. The informal layer of English vocabulary. The notion of system in vocabulary. Types of system relations. Types of lexical subsystems. The object of lexicology. Its practical and theoretical value, its connection with other branches of linguistics. The problem of the motivation of the word. The word-building system of English. Types of word-building; their productivity. Types of borrowing. Assimilation of borrowings in English. Types of lexical meaning. Denotation and connotation. Variation of the word and the problem of the sameness of the word.

8.2.3. Примерная тематика рефератов

Territorial varieties of the English language. Dialects and variants. Historical background of the British English and American English divergence. Some phonetic and grammatical divergences between British English and American English. Lexical divergences between British English and American English. The status of American English. Types of dictionaries. Dictionaries of new type. Electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias. Roget’s thesaurus. Learner’s dictionaries. Historical development of British and American dictionaries. Samuel Johnson and A Dictionary of the English Language. Noah Webster and his dictionaries. The Oxford English Dictionary. Onomatopoeic and sound-symbolic words. Morphemic Analysis and Word-Formation Analysis. bining forms (completives). Affixational neologisms. Conversion and its models. Semantic relationships in conversion. «STONE WALL Problem». Reduplicative pound neologisms. Abbreviations. Telescoped words (blends). Shortenings in the language of Internet. Back-formation (reversion). Classifications of new words. Occasional words (nonce words). Reanalysis and folk etymology. Extralinguistic and linguistic causes of semantic change. Results of semantic change: generalization, specialization. Results of semantic change: amelioration, pejoration. ponential analysis. Paronyms, malapropisms, spoonerisms. Hyponymy. Lexical gaps. Thematic and ideographic groups, semantic fields. Euphemisms. Enantiosemy. International and pseudointernational words. Etymological doublets. Terminological subsystems of English vocabulary. Politically correct vocabulary.

8.2.4. Примерный перечень тестовых заданий

1. Analyse the aspects and functions of the underlined words:

The little boys stood glaring at each other ready to start a fight.

2. Describe The Oxford English Dictionary according to the following scheme: its history, type of dictionary, dictionary structure, structure of word entry.

3. Find antonyms for the words and establish their types:

beautiful to live a teacher West long to sell truth

4. Identify the type of synonyms in the pairs:

to ask – to interrogate an inflection – an ending to hate – to detest a battle – a fight to postpone – to put off word-building – word-formation

5. Carry out the componential analysis of these words into their semantic markers and distinguishers:

bull, cow, calf spinster, wife, widow, bride, mother

6. FINAL RESEARCH WORK

Directions for a complete lexicological analysis of a word:

Choose a sentence in a book you are reading. Underline a word you have selected for your analysis. Write out its meanings from an explanatory dictionary. Define the type of relations between the meanings (classificational or implicational). Analyze two meanings from the diachronic, stylistic and synchronic points of view, one of them being a contextual meaning. Define the type of semantic structure of the word under analysis (radial, chain-like, mixed, overlapping). Define the type of context in which the word is used in the sentence. Analyze the contextual meaning from the point of view of its structure (grammatical and lexical, denotative and connotative meanings) and function (significative or demonstrative meaning). Characterize some system relations of the word in question:

Find its synonyms and define the type of synonymy (stylistic, ideographic or others); Give an antonym and define the type of antonymy (morphological, logico-semantic, semantic characteristics); Give its paronyms, if any; Give its homonyms and characterize them from the point of view their form, meaning, paradigm.

Analyze the word-building family of the chosen word. Give some phraseological units with this word. Analyze their origin, meaning, and structure.

8.2.5. Структура и содержание билета

ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ АГЕНТСТВО ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ

ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ
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Дисциплина: ДПП.Ф.04 Лексикология
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General etymological characteristics of English vocabulary. Native word-stock of English.
Types of lexical meaning. Denotation and connotation.
Final research work.

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