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- 2. The word: basic unit of lexicology The most important characteristics of the word: 1. The word
- 3. The word is a unit used for purposes of human communication, materially representing a group of
- 5. Types of meaning grammatical meaning (unites words into parts of speech) Ex.: goes, stops, works lexical
- 6. Denotational and connotational meaning Denotational component expresses the notional content of the word, shows what the
- 7. Types of connotational meaning Evaluative (rational and emotional) Ex.: brain Ex.: brock (“a scoundrel”) Cf. also:
- 8. Componential Analysis consists in decomposition of the word meaning into semes – minimal components of meaning,
- 9. Motivation morhological (Ex.: leader, cranberry) phonetical (Ex.: splash, boom, chung, ching) semantic (Ex.: chain chain store,
- 10. Polysemy Ex.: do, go, see, etc. lexico-semantical variants of the word (LSVs) Primary and secondary meanings
- 11. Semantic changes. Causes: historical, or extralinguistic, and linguistic. villain («деревенский житель» → «негодяй» Tory «ирландский разбойник»→
- 12. The nature of semantic change Association Transference: 1) based on similarity linguistic metaphor: neck (of a
- 13. Metaphors Based on similarity between two physical objects (concrete to concrete metaphores): teeth of a saw,
- 14. Metonymy 1) instrument → agent: pen (“writer”); 2) consequence → cause: grey hair (“old age”); 3)
- 15. Synechdoche is a variety of metonymy which consists in using the name of a part to
- 16. Semantic change may result in the change of the range of meaning. narrowing (specialization) of meaning.
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