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Aims and Significance of the Course
The significance of the course
Develop your personal vocabulary and consciously increase your word power (active vocabulary). Understand word-meaning and organize, classify and store words more effectively. Raise your awareness of meaning and usages, use words more accurately and appropriately. Develop your skills and habits of analyzing and generalizing linguistic phenomena in your learning experiences. Ultimately improve your receptive and productive skills in language processing as well as language production.
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Lexicology as a part of linguistics
Lexicology is the part of linguistics, dealing with the vocabulary of a language and the properties of words as the main units of language. Vocabulary means the sum of all the words in the language. Good knowledge of the description of the vocabulary, rules of word-formation, origin and history of words helps to guess and remember the meaning of new-learned words, to master the standards of their usage, and to prevent mistakes. Two ways to study lexicology: 1) Diachronic approach : 历时语言学 2) Synchronic approach : 共时语言学
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1.1 What Is a Word?
The definition of a word
To sum up, the definition of a word comprises the following points
A minimal free form of a language A sound unity A unit of meaning A form that can function alone in a sentence
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“Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.”
Introduction
Language, Linguistics and Lexicology Aims and Significance of the Course
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Aims and Significance of the Course Aims of the course
Give a systematic description of the English vocabulary. Offer an insight into the origin and development of the English vocabulary. Discuss the problems of word-structure and wordformation Study the use of English words , their meanings and changes in meaning, their Word?
The definition of a word
词是能独立运用的、最小的、有语义的语言单位。 词是能独立运用的、最小的、有语义的语言单位。 A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. 词是语音、意义和语法特点三者统一的整体。 词是语音、意义和语法特点三者统一的整体。词又是语 句的基本结构单位。 句的基本结构单位。 A fundamental unit of speech and a minimum free form; with a unity of sound and meaning (both lexical and grammatical meaning), capable of performing a given syntactic function. 今指语言组织中的基础单位，能独立运用， 词 ， 今指语言组织中的基础单位 ， 能独立运用 ， 具有声 意义和语法功能。 ——《辞海》1984，上海辞书出版社 辞海》 音、意义和语法功能。 ，
“Language is man’s way of communication with his fellow man and It is language alone which separate him from the lower animals”
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Language, Linguistics and Lexicology What is linguistics?
Generally speaking, linguistics can be defined as the scientific study of language. To be more exact, linguistics studies the general principles upon which languages are constructed and operate as systems of human communication
Chapter 1 A General Survey of a Word
1.1 What Is a Word? 1.2 Sound and Meaning 1.3 Grammatical meaning and lexical meaning 1.4 Meaning and Concept 1.5 Word and vocabulary
Therefore, we can say that ‘a word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.
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Language, Linguistics and Lexicology What is language?
Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. It is a specific social action and a carrier of information.
1.1 What Is a Word?
The definition of a word
It is quite difficult to state the criteria by which a word can be defined; so far no completely satisfactory definition has been given. In brief, a word may be defined as a fundamental unit of speech and minimum free form; with a unity of sound and meaning (both lexical and grammatical meaning), capable of performing a given syntactic function. Therefore, from the lexicological point of view, a word is a combination of form (phonological) and meaning (lexical and grammatical). In addition, a word acts as a structural unit of a sentence.
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Aims and Significance of the Course What is lexicology?
English lexicology is a theoretically-oriented course. It is chiefly concerned with the basic theories of words in general and of English words in particular. However, it is a practical course as well, for in the discussion, we shall inevitably deal with copious stocks of words and idioms, and study many usage examples. Naturally, there will be a large quantity of practice involved.