A2MP_LEXI Lexicology and Lexicography

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 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: Jana Popelková
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
The course introduces the basics of lexicography focusing on different types of dictionaries and their use in language teaching, types of information provided in a dictionary entry and strategies used in writing dictionary definitions. The study of lexical semantics is centered on denotation, reference and associative meanings of words, sense relations and lexical cohesion.
At the end of the course the students should be able to delineate the major differences between the existing types of dictionaries, to analyze and explain the strategies for defining the meaning(s) of words, to use corpora search to explore the meaning of words and the use of words in context, to explain the diference between sense and reference, the delimit different types of meaning, to understand and explain the changes in the meaning of words and semantic neologisms, to understand and analyze sense relations, to analyze lexical cohesion in diferent types of text.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic notions.
  • 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
  • JACKSON, Howard and Etienne ZÉ AMVELA. Words, meaning and vocabulary : an introduction to modern English lexicology. 2nd ed. New York: Continuum, 2007, xii, 248. ISBN 9780826490186. 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
  • Manuál lexikografie. Edited by František Čermák - Renata Blatná. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 283 s. ISBN 80-85787-23-7. info
  • PALMER, F. R. Semantics. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, vi, 221. ISBN 0521283760. info
  • CRUSE, D. A. Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 310 s. ISBN 0521276438. info
  • GODDARD, Cliff. Semantic Analysis : a practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, xv, 411 s. ISBN 0-19-870017-2. info
  • HLADKÝ, Josef and Milan RŮŽIČKA. A functional onomatology of English. 4. opr. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 93 s. ISBN 8021018879. info
  • CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, vii, 489. ISBN 0521401798. info
Teaching methods
Seminars including class discussions, group-work and self-study. The self-study modules consist of reading assignments, projects and drills.
Assessment methods
Compulsory presence and participation at seminars. Students should fulfil all homework tasks and hand in three written assignments. Oral exam.
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.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=699
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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