|
|
|
||
|
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic issues of the Modern English lexicology. The course addresses the following major areas: the morphological structure of words, word-formation processes, lexical semantics, stylistic stratification of the lexicon and the processes of borrowing. Although the primary perspective will be synchronic, where relevant, the most important historical (linguistic, social-cultural) milestones in the development of the English language will be taken into account. Topic 1: Basic terminology. Characteristic features of the English vocabulary. Topic 2: Morphological structure of words; major and minor word-formation processes. Topic 3: Historical development of the English vocabulary. Topic 4: Collocation. Topic 5: Set expressions. Topic 6: Word meaning; paradigmatic sense relations; figures of speech. Topic 7: Stylistic stratification of the English vocabulary.
Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)
|
|
||
|
Students develop their vocabulary and so that they are able use it correctly and appropriately in accordance with the context and communicative aim, taking into account all relevant aspects (word-formation, origin, style, formality, collocation). Students gain knowledge about the English lexical system in terms of its structure and intra-lingual relations. Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (14.09.2024)
|
|
||
|
Self-study of literature: 8 hours Work with the study materials: 20 hours Seminar paper: 5 hours Preparation for the credit: 15 hours Preperation for the exam: 25 hours Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (07.09.2023)
|
|
||
|
1. Active participation in seminars - execercises, discussions, homework presentation, study of relevant literature. The topics are based on the syllabus and homework is checked every week. 2. The seminar paper takes the form of tasks and exercises to be done at home; the topics reflect the syllabus and the issues dealt with during the lecture and seminars. The completion of these tasks will be required by a set date, the deadline will be announed at the beginning of the course. Participation in these tasks is a condition for a successful comletion of the whole course and a prerequisite for taking the exam. 3. An exam - a written test. Students have to achieve the minimum of 70%. There are two resits. Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)
|
|
||
|
. BAUER, Laurie. English Word-formation, 4th reprint. Cambridge: CUP, 1993. BAUER, Laurie. Vocabulary, 4th reprint. London: Routledge, 1998. BEJAN, Camelia. English Words: Structure, Origin and Meaning, New York: Addleton Academic Publishers, 2017. CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY, Andrew. An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and their Structure, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. CRUSE, David. A. Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. 3rd edition. Oxford: OUP, 2011. CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge: CUP, 2018. ČERMÁK, František. Frazeologie a idiomatika česká a obecná, Praha: Karolinum, 2007. ČERMÁK, František. Lexikon a Sémantika. Praha: NLN, 2010. JACKSON, Howard; ZÉ AMVELA, Etienne. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology. 2nd edition. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. KATAMBA, Francis. English Words. London: Routledge, 1994. LAKOFF, George and JOHNSON, Mark. Metaphors we Live by, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. MCCARTHY, Michael. Vocabulary. Oxford: OUP, 1990. MOON, Rosamond. Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. MURPHY, Lynne. Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy, and Other Paradigms. Cambridge: CUP, 2003. MURPHY, Lynne. Lexical Meaning. Cambridge: CUP, 2010. PEPRNÍK, Jaroslav. English Lexicology. 2nd edition. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2003. QUIRK, Randolph. et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. 2nd Revised edition. London: Longman, 1985. VACHEK, Josef. Chapters from Modern English Lexicology and Stylistics. Praha: SPN, 1991. VOGEL, Radek. Terminologies, Lexical Hierarchies and Other Configurations. Brno: Masaryk University, 2017. Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.09.2023)
|
|
||
|
An exam - a written test. Students have to achieve the minimum of 70%. There are two resits. In order to take the exam, students have to complete the obligatory exercises in Moodle (required for being awarded the credit) by a set date. Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)
|
|
||
|
Week 1 Introduction to lexicology; key terms (word-morpheme-lexeme-sign). Lexical and grammatical system; open and closed word classes. Week 2 Morphological structure of words. Word formation – affixation. Week 3 Word formation – compounding, conversion. Week 4 Minor word-formation processes (blending, back-formation, clipping, abbreviations, acronyms) Week 5 Historical development of the English word-stock. Borrowing and etymology; types of loans and the process of domestication. Linguistic characterology of the English word-stock. Week 6 Syntagmatic sense relations. Collocation. Week 7 Set expressions (e.g. phrasal verbs, idioms, proverbs, sayings, catch-phrases). Transparent vs opaque words. Week 8 Word Meaning. Meaning and form (arbitrariness and motivation). Types of meaning (denotation, connotation). Week 9 Paradigmatic sense relations (synonymy, oppositeness, meronymy, hyperonymy-hyponymy) Week 10 Polysemy. Figures of speech (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification). Week 11 Word-stock Layers. Registers. Style. Centre and periphery of the English word-stock. Week 12 Revision. Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.09.2023)
|
|
||
|
The student identifies the basic features of the lexical system, describes the differences between lexis and grammar, and explains and exemplifies basic lexical concepts. The student describes the morphological structure of words, identifies the basic types of morphemes and distinguishes between the individual types of word formation. The student describes and applies the process of derivation. The student characterises and applies the word formation processes of compounding and conversion. The student characterises and applies minor word formation processes (e.g. blending, shortening, backformation). The student explains the process of borrowing of words into English, distinguishes between different types of loans and characterises native Germanic and borrowed lexis, taking into account their basic formal and semantic properties. The student describes the organisation of the lexical system on the basis of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations, identifies the basic lexico-semantic relations (synonymy, opposition, hyponymy etc.), determines their sub-types and specifies their basic features; the student identifies the relations holding between individual lexical items outside and in context. The student defines the syntagmatic relation of collocation and identifies examples in the text. The student describes all the different types of set expressions and names their basic features. The student gives examples, identifies set expressions in the text and comments on their function. The student characterizes the concept of lexical meaning and identifies its basic components. The student explains the relation between the meaning and form of the linguistic sign. The student names, describes and distinguishes between the basic types of semantic change (metaphor, metonymy); the student defines the concept of polysemy and explains the difference between polysemy and homonymy. The student explains the concepts of centre and periphery of the lexical system and explains the relation between them and the individual layers of the lexicon; the student adopts different perspectives on lexical stratification (temporal, stylistic, regional and social). Last update: Nádraská Zuzana, PhDr., Ph.D. (14.09.2024)
|