2022年英语词汇学笔记 .pdf

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1、1 English Lexicology( 英语词汇学 ) Lexicology : is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words. The Nature and Scope of English lexicology：English lexicology aims at investigating and studying the morphological structures of English words and word equivalents, their semantic

2、 structures, relations, historical development, formation and usages. The subjects that English Lexicology correlated with and extent to：English Lexicology is correlated with such linguistic disciplines as morphology( 形态学 ), semantics(语 义 学 ), etymology( 词 源 学 ),stylistics （ 文 体 论 ）and lexicography(

3、词典学 ) The reason for a student to study English lexicology：According to the textbook, English Lexicology will definitely be beneficial for students of English. A good knowledge of morphological structures of English words and rules of word-formation will help learners develop their personal vocabula

4、ry and consciously increase their word power. The information of the historical development and the principles of classification will give them a deeper understanding of word-meaning and enable them to organize, classify and store words more effectively. The understanding and their sense relations w

5、ill gradually raise their awareness of meaning and usage, and enable them use words more accurately and appropriately. A working knowledge of dictionaries will improve their skills of using reference books and raise their problem-solving ability and efficiency of individual study. Chapter 1-Basic co

6、ncepts of words and vocabulary Word: A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. (1)a minimal free form of a language (2)a sound unity (3)a unit of meaning (4)a form that can function alone in a sentencesound and meaning: almost arbitrary, “

7、no logical relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itself”sound and form : the sound should be similar to the form Vocabulary: all the words in a language make up its vocabulary The 3 Stages of Development of E V ocabulary: Old English vocabul

8、ary, Middle EV , Modern EV Classification of English Words According to Different Criteria The basic word stock : is the foundation of the vocabulary accumulated over centuries and forms the common core of the language. Though it constitute a small percentage of the EV, it is the most important part

9、 of vocabulary. The Fundamental Features of the Basic Word Stock: 1)All-National character（全民通用性 most important）2)Stability（相对稳定性）3)Productivity（多产性）4)Polysemy（多义性）5)Collocability （可搭配性）words:(1)Terminology(术语) (2)Jargon（行话）(3)slang（俚语）(4)Argot（暗语） （5）Dialectal words(方言) (6) Archaisms（古语）(7) Neologi

10、sms（新词名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 1 页，共 10 页 - - - - - - - - - 2 语）:Neologisms means newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on new meanings.(email) Content words (cloud, run walk, never, five, frequently ) and functional words

11、 (on, of, and, be, but ) Native Words and Loan Words Native words: known as Anglo-Saxon words (50,000-60,000), are words brought to Britain in the 5th century by the Germanic tribes. (mainstream of the basic word-stocks) Loan words: words taken over from foreign languages.(80% of modern EV) 4 Types

12、of loan words: 1) denizens(同化词) (shirt from skyrta(ON) 2) aliens（ 外 来 词 ） :are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling (kowtow (CH)磕头) 3) translation loans(译借词):按其他语言方式组成英语long time no see from China 4) semantic loans （借义词）：their meanings are borrowed Chapter 2 t

13、he development of the English Vocabulary The Indo-European Language Family The Eight Groups in Indo-European Family of Languages The Balto-slavic Group（波罗的-斯拉夫语族） ：Latvian,Russian,Bugarian,Polish,Czech etc. The Indo-Iranian Group（印度 -伊朗语族）：Sanskrit,Hindi,Urdu,Bengali,Persian etc. The Armenian Group（

14、亚美尼亚语族）：Armenian. The Albanian Group（阿尔巴尼亚语族）：Albanian. The Hellenic Group（古希腊语族）：Greek. The Italian Group（意大利语族）：Latin,Romance languages(French,Italian,Spanish, portuguess,Romanian) etc. The Celtic Group（凯尔特语族）：Gaelic,Welsh,Breton etc. The Germanic Group （日耳曼语族）：Englsih,German,Dutch,Scandinavian(No

15、rweigian, Swedish,Danish,Icelandic) etc. The Three Stages of Development of the English Vocabulary 1 Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1100) (vocabulary 50,000 to 60,000) 2 Middle English Period (1150-1500) 3 Modern English Period (1500-now): in fact more than 25% of modern E words c

16、ome almost directly from classical languages. In Modern E, words endings were mostly lost Modes of V Development(Modern E): 1)creation 2)semantic change 3) borrowing Chapter 3 Word Formation I Morpheme(语素):the minimal meaningful unit(the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words) Allomor

17、ph(语 素 变 体 ): is a different variant form of a morpheme，differ in phonological and spelling form, but at the same in function and meaning Type of Morpheme Free Morpheme: A free morpheme is one that can stand by itself. (independent) Bound Morpheme(粘着语素 ): A bound morpheme is one that cannot stand by

18、 itself. Bound Morpheme includes two types: (1) bound root (2)Affix( 词缀) 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 2 页，共 10 页 - - - - - - - - - 3 1)Inflectional affixes ( 屈折词缀 )(inflectional morphemes) : affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatic

19、al relationships are inflectional 2)Derivational affixes(派生词缀 ) A) prefix: A prefix comes before words. B)suffix An adjective suffix（形容词后缀）that is added to the stem, whatever classis belongs to , the result will be an adjective. free=free root（自由词根）Morpheme(词素) Bound root prefix bound derivational a

20、ffix suffix inflectional Root and stem （词根和词干）1) Root 2) Stem The differences between root and stem: A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. A stem is the surplus part after the cutting of inflectional morpheme in a word with inflectional m

21、orphemes,can be further analyzed, it sometimes could be a root. Individualistic Undesirables Individualist (stem) undesirable (stem) Individual (stem) desirable (stem) dividual (stem) desire (root, stem) divide(root, stem) Chapter 4 Word-Formation II Affixation 词缀法 （Derivation 派生法） ： adding word-for

22、mation or derivational affixes to stem. Prefixation 前缀：Its the formation of new words by adding a prefixes to stems. 1)表示否定 nagative prefixes: un-,non,in-,dis,a- etc. 2)reversative or privative prefixes: un-,de-dis etc. 3)表示贬义 pejorative prefixes: mis-, mal-, pseudo- etc. 4)表示程度degree or size prefix

23、es: arch-, super-,out-,sub-,over-,under-,hyper-,ultra-,mini- etc. 5)表示方向、态度 orientation & attitude prefixes:counter-,contra-,anti-,pro- etc. 6)locative prefixes:super-,sub-,inter-,trans- etc. 7)表示时间、次序 time and order prefixes:fore-,pre-,post-,ex-,re- etc. 8)表示数量 number prefixes:uni-/mono-,bi-/di-,tr

24、i-,multi-/poly- etc. 9)混杂miscellaneous prefixes ：auto-, neo-, pan-, vice- Suffixation 后缀: Its the formation of a new word by adding suffixes to stems. 1)noun suffixes 2)adjective suffixes 3)Adverb suffixes 4)verb suffixes Compounding复合法（also called composition ）Compounding: is the formation of new w

25、ords by joining two or more stems Compounds are written in three ways: solid(airmail) hyphenated(air-conditioning) 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 3 页，共 10 页 - - - - - - - - - 4 open(air force, air raid) Formation of compounds noun compounds e.g. : air

26、 + plane = airplane,flower + pot = flower pot adjective compounds e.g. acid + head = acid-head verb compounds e.g. house + keep = housekeep Conversion转类法Conversion: is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class. Blending混成法Blending is the formation of new words by c

27、ombining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word e.g: motor + hotel = motel, smoke + fog = smog, formula + translation = FORTRAN Clipping 截缩法Clipping: to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instead. e.g. plane from airplane, phone from tel

28、ephone. 1).Front clippings (phone from telephone) 2).Back clippings (dorm from dormitory) 3).Front and back clippings (flu from influenza) 4).Phrase clippings (pop from popular music) Acronymy首字母缩写法Acronymy:is the process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and pol

29、itical organizations or special noun phrases and technical terms. Initialism 首字母缩写词法 : initialisms are pronounced letter by letter. e.g.: BBC(for British Broadcasting corporation) Acronym 首字母拼读词法:Acronyms are words formed from initial letters but pronounced as a normal word. Back-formation（逆生法，逆构词）B

30、ack-formation is considered to be the opposite process of suffixation.(greed from greedy) Words From Proper Name专有名词转成法Names of people, places, book, and trade names (e.g.: sir watt siemens( 人名) - watt（瓦特，电功率单位）Chapter 5 Word Meaning The meanings of “ Meaning”Reference (所指): 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - -

31、 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 4 页，共 10 页 - - - - - - - - - 5 It is the relationship between language and the word. It is the arbitrary and conventional. It is a kind of abstraction, yet with the help of context, it can refer to something specific. Concept（概 念 ） :It is beyon

32、d language is the result of human cognition( 认识),reflecting the objective world in the human mind. Sense （意义） :It denotes the relationship inside the language. ,The sense of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other expressions in the language. ?Motivation(理据)： It a

33、ccounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning. 1) Onomatopoeic motivation （拟声理据）2)Morphological motivation （形态理据）3)Semantic motivation（词义理据）4)Etymological motivation （词源理据）Types of meaning Grammatical Meaning （ 语 法 意 义 ） :indicate the grammatical concept(become important o

34、nly in actual context) Lexical Meaning （词汇意义）Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning make up the word-meaning Lexical meaning has 2 components: Conceptual meaning(概念意义 ) and associative meaning(关联意义 ) Conceptual meaning( 概念意义 ): also known as denotative meaning( 外延意义 ) Associative meaning(关联意义 ):con

35、notative 隐含意义 ,Stylistic 风格意义 ,Affective感情意义 , Collocative 搭配意义 Chapter 6 -Sense relation and semantic field （语义关系和语义场）Polysemy （多义关系）Two approached to polysemy: diachronic approach(历时方法 ) synchronic approach (共时方法 ) Two processed of development: radiation （辐射型） and concatenation （连锁型）Homonymy（同形 /同

36、音异义关系）It refers words different in meaning but either identical both in sound and spelling or identical only in sound or spelling. Types of homonyms 1）Perfect homonyms（完全同音同形异义词）2）Homophones（同音异义词）3)Homographs（同形异义词）Origins of homonyms 1）change in sound and spelling 2 ）borrowing 3）Shortening(缩略) The

37、 differences between polysemes（多义词） and homonyms （同音同形异义词）). 1)Homonymy refer to different words which happen to share the same form and polysemy are the one and same word which has sevral distinguishable meaning. 2)Homonymy are from different sources. Polysemy are from the same source. 名师资料总结 - - -

38、精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 5 页，共 10 页 - - - - - - - - - 6 3)The various meanings of polysemy are correlated and connected to one central meaning.Meanings of different homonymy have nothing to do with one another. values: Polysemic and homonymous word are stly

39、istically useful to achieve humour or irony（反话，讽刺） ,or to heighten（提高）dramatic effect. Synonymy (同义关系 ):one of two or more words in the English language which have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning : absolute synonyms and relative synonyms Sources of synonyms( 同义词 ) are : 1)Borrowin

40、g 2)Dialects and regional English 3)Figurative and euphemistic use of words 4)Coincidence with idiomatic expressions Antonymy (反义关系 ) It is concerned with semantic opposition. Antonyms can be defined as words which are opposite in meaning. 1)contradictory terms (矛盾反义词 ):these antonyms truly represen

41、t oppositeness of meaning, such antonyms are non-gradable. They cannot be used in comparative degrees. (single/married) 2)contrary terms （对立反义词） :antonyms of this type are best viewed in terms of a scale running between two poles or extremes.(old/young) 3)relative terms（关系反义词）： （parent/child）sell/bu

42、y Some of the characteristics of antonyms 反义关系的特点1)antonyms are classified on the basis of semantic opposition 2)a word which has more than one meaning can have more than one antonym 3)antonyms differ in semantic inclusion 4)contrary terms are gradable antonyms The uses of antonymsTo express economi

43、cally the opposite of a particular thought for the sake of contrast.(idiom:now and never) To form anithesis(对 比 法 ) to achieve emphasis by putting contrasting idea together.(proverbs and sayings:easy come , easy go) Hyponymy(上下义关系 ) Hyponymy deals with the relationship of semantic inclusion. The mea

44、ning of a more specific word is included in that of another more general word. For example, a cat is hyponym of animal Superordinate and Subordinate (118) Semantic Field(词义场 ) Viewing the total meaning in this way is the basis of field theory e.g.(apple, pear, peach,date,mango,orange,lemon, etc. mak

45、e up the semantic field of ,fruits?)The semantic field of the same concept may not have the same members in different language. 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 6 页，共 10 页 - - - - - - - - - 7 e.g.(aunt in English, may means “父亲的姐姐，妈妈的姐姐，父亲哥哥的妻子” in Chin

46、ese.(122) Chapter 7 Changes in Word Meaning词义的演变Vocabulary is the most unstable element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content. Comparatively the content is even more unstable than the form. Types of Changes 词义变化的种类（extension,narrowing,degradation,elevation and t

47、ransfer）Extension or generalization 词义的扩大 :is the name given to the widening of meaning which some words panion (old)one who shares bread (ex)a company Narrowing or specialization词义的缩小 ： is the opposite of widening meaning. When a common words is turned into a proper noun, the meaning is narrowed. m

48、eat (old)food (na)flesh of animals Elevation or amelioration of meaning词义的升华 : the process by which words rise from humble（粗陋的）beginnings to positions of importance. knight (old)servant (el)rank below baronet从男爵 Degeneration or pejoration词义的贬降 :A process whereby words of good origin fall into ill re

49、putation or no-affective words come to used in derogatory sense.silly (old)happy (de)foolish Transfer 词义的转移 :Words which were used to designate指明 one thing but later changed to mean something else have experienced the process of semantic transfer.（140）Causes of Semantic Change 词义变化的原因Extra-linguisti

50、c factors 141 1 Historical reason 2 Class reason (elevation or degradation) 3 Psychological reason Linguistic factors ：the change of meaning may be caused by internal factors with in the language system. Chapter 8 Meaning and Context 意义和语境Context in its traditional sense refers to the lexical items