A2MK_LEXI Lexicology and Lexicography

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/0/24. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
The students should have an advanced or proficiency level of English. They should have already taken a course in lexicology dealing with word-formation processes in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course descritpion The course introduces the basic notions of lexicography and lexical semantics. The students are encouraged to make up a classification of different types of dictionaries and to find out the strategies for explaining the meaning(s) of a dictionary entry. The study of word meaning concentrates on the diference between sense and reference, the delimitation of different types of meaning, the changes in the meaning of words and semantic neologisms, and sense relations. Lexical cohesion is explored using as example diferent types of text.
Syllabus
  • Syllabus 1. Introduction to Lexical semantics and Lexicography. 2. Lexicography. Types of dictionaries. 3. The structure of a dictionary entry. Dictionary definitions. Language corpora. 4. Denotative meaning of a word. Core and peripheral meaning. Prototypes. 5. Relations between lexical items. Polysemy and homonymy. 6. Historical semantics: changes in the meaning of words. 7. Semantic and stylistic neologisms. Categories of figurative language. Conceptual metaphor. 8. Variation in vocabulary choice: dialect and register variation. 9. Sense relations: hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy and antonomy. 10. Lexical cohesion: lexical chains. 11. Idiomaticity.
Literature
  • HLADKÝ, Josef and Milan RŮŽIČKA. A functional onomatology of English. 4. opr. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 93 s. ISBN 8021018879. info
  • GODDARD, Cliff. Semantic Analysis : a practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, xv, 411 s. ISBN 0-19-870017-2. info
  • Manuál lexikografie. Edited by František Čermák - Renata Blatná. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 283 s. ISBN 80-85787-23-7. info
  • CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, vii, 489. ISBN 0521401798. info
  • HATCH, Evelyn and Cheryl BROWN. Vocabulary, semantics, and language education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xii, 468 s. ISBN 0-521-47942-8. info
  • CRUSE, D. A. Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 310 s. ISBN 0521276438. info
  • PALMER, F. R. Semantics. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, vi, 221. ISBN 0521283760. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Exam - written and oral part
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=699
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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