英语词汇学课件1-6章

1、Lecture 1,The 3 basic elements of English:,speech sounds grammar vocabulary,Lexicology: a branch of Linguistics which studies the origins and meanings of words. To be specific, they include aspects like the formal and semantic structure, semantic relationships, word formation and usage, the historic

2、al development and evolution of words, etc.,It has something to do with the following subjects:,形态学、语体学、词典学、词源学、特定文化背景等。,Aims and Significance of the Course:,To know the general rules of word formation which helps us enlarge our vocabulary.,To foster the ability to use “the right word”. As a saying

3、goes, “Right words in right places makes a good writing”.,To have a better awareness of language (English).,To get a deeper understanding of the culture of foreign countries. To sum up, English Lexicology is a theoretically-oriented course as well as as a practical one. What is a word? Please think

4、by yourselves and give the definition of your own.(p2) The minimal free form of a language, which has a given sound, meaning and syntactic function.,What Does Vocabulary Refer To?(p2),The total number of words in a language. In English, there are more than_ words. 100,00 B.100,000 C. one million D.

5、one billion Including: Native vs. Alien,words “man”: to man a dove) E. Collocability( form idioms, proverbs),Non-basic Words:,Terminology, jargon, slang, dialectal words, etc.,Content Words and Functional words,Native words and Borrowed words The latter can be divided into 4 types. What are they? (H

6、omework for your self-study),Lecture 2,(1) The Development of the English Vocabulary About 300 language families exist in the world, among which the Indo-European is widespread, having much influence on the development of English.,1) Old English vocabulary(4501150 AD) After Romans, 3 Germanic tribes

7、 called Angles, Saxons and Jutes controlled England. Their languageAnglo-Saxon also dominated the land. It was a highly inflected language with about 50000-60000 words.,In the 9th century, some Norwegians and Danish invaded England, which brought some Scandinavian words such as: skirt, window, skill

8、, birth, egg” ,etc.,2) Middle English（11501500） The Normans invaded England from France in 1066 and many French words flowed into English.( state, judge, power, prince, court, crime, peace, battle, etc.),3) Modern English (1500-now) 2 sub-periods can be divided: Early Modern English(1500-1700) Becau

9、se of the Renaissance, many Latin and Greek words entered English and English began to have a Latinate flavor.,b. Late Modern English After experiencing the Industrial Revolution and Bourgeois revolution, England became a great economic power and began to absorb words from all major languages in the

10、 world. After World War II, more words are created by means of word-formation.,General Characteristics of Modern English,1. Receptivity 2. Simplicity of Inflection( esp. endings ) 3. relatively fixed word-order Advantahes and disadvantages co-exist in terms of learning English.,Growth of Contemporar

11、y English Vocabulary,3 main sources of modern English vocabulary:,The rapid development of science and technology( moon walk, smart bomb) Social, economic and political changes(talk show, the fourth world, open university, chairperson) The influence of other cultures and languages (kungfu),Modes of

12、Vocabulary Development,Creation 创新词most important fruice, sportcast 2. Semantic change（旧词新义）economic way of creating new words web, break, mouse 3. Borrowing 4. Reviving archaic or obsolete words, but insignificant especially to American English. (guess, sick, fall),Chapter 3,Morphological Structure

13、 of English Words,Morphemes (词素),A word is the smallest unit of a language that stands alone to communicate meaning. Structurally, a word is not the smallest unit because many words can be separated into even smaller meaningful units.,Morphemes,Lets take internationalization as an example, which can

14、 be broken down into inter-, nation, -al, -ize, -ation, each having a meaning of its own. And these segments cannot be further divided; otherwise, they could not make any sense.,Morphemes,Undesirability- -un+ -desire+ -able+ -ity Improvement- -im+ -prove+ -ment Unfaithful-?,Definition of the morphem

15、e,The morpheme is “the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words”. (Crystal, 1985),Morph 语素形式, 语子,The phonetic or orthographic strings or segments which realize morphemes are “ morphs”. (p.44) Cats, bags, matches: /s/, /z/, /iz/ 3 morphs 动词 be 的变化,Allomorph: 词素变体,An allomorph is one of t

16、wo or more complementary morphs which manifest a morpheme in its different phonological or morphological environments. cats, beds, horses, (-s, -z, -iz) feet, men; deer, fish 动词过去时态变化 ed, -ied; 不规则变化 词缀的变化 如： /p, b, m/前的否定前缀： 如 im- (否则多为in- ),Types of morphemes 1. free morpheme(those that are meanin

17、gful and can be used freely and independently such as earth, wind, boy, bite, etc.) 2. bound morpheme (粘着词素） Mainly in derivative words recollection: How many bound morphemes?,Affixes,Forms that are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or function Almost all affixes are bound morphem

18、es Few can be used as independent words,Two groups of affixes,Inflectional affixes（屈折词缀） affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships or called inflectional morphemes Modern English is an analytical language and only has a few inflectional affixes. -s, -ed, -ing -er/est

19、,Derivational Affixes(派生词缀),affixes added to other morphemes to create new words two kinds : 1. prefixes: come before the word 2. suffixes: come after the word,比较相似又有所差异的几个概念,Root, Stem, Base What is root? (词根) the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity

20、(Crystal, 1985) a root is that part of a word form that remains when all inflectional and derivational affixes have been removed (Bauer, 1983),Stem 词干,The part of the word-form which remains when all inflectional affixes have been removed. 2 forms: 1root morpheme ( iron, gas) 2root morpheme + affixa

21、tional moephemesmouthful, nation, national, nationalist,Base 词基,It is a form to which affixes of any kind can be added. It can be a root or a stem. For example, “internationalists”: Nation ( root, stem base) National Nationalist Internationalist ,Chapter 4 Word Formation,4.1. affixation Prefix: a-(n

22、ot, without), 如 amoral; neo-. pan-, mal-, macro-, etc. Suffix (page 61) 4.2. Compounding (composition) V. Adj. N. 2 words(or more than 2) put together Hot line; laser bomb; black hole; baby-sit; job-hop; window-shop; toothache;silkworm round-the-clock (negotiation),4.3. Conversion (转类法）词性转换 water th

23、e flower; book a ticket; man a bus Its a long wait; John is a cheat; Give me a push, OK? The poor; the accused; the deserted 4.4: Blending（拼缀法） Parts of 2 words are put together. Smog Smoke+fog botel-? boat+hotel,Exercise:,Tell us how the following are formed and what they mean: chunnel; sitcom; com

24、sat; brunch,4.5 Clipping,A. word clipping Clipping the front, back or both. telephone phone; advertisement ad; discotheque disco influenza flu; refrigerator fridge B. Phrase clipping pub (public house) zoo (zoological garden) pop (popular music),4.6 Acronymy,1. Initialisms UN, IOC,UFO; TV, Can you w

25、ork out what the following refer to? IMF, C/O, TB, TOEFL, H-bomb,International Monetary Fund(国际货币基金组织) care of (由转交) tuberculosis 肺炎 托福(Test of English as a Foreign Language) 氢弹(hydrogen bomb),2. Acronyms,Words formed from initial letters but pronounced as a normal word. NATO Radar(radio detecting a

26、nd ranging) TEFL,4.7. backformation(逆生法) television-televise destructiondestruct beggarbeg donation donate automationautomate diagnosisdiagnose 一般是把(假定的)后缀去掉。,Chapter 5 Word Meaning and Componential Analysis,5.1 Word Meaning 1. Reference 所指, referent(所指物) It indicates which things are being talked a

27、bout. Arbitrary, conventional ( dog) 2. Concept: result of human cognition The same concept can be expressed by many words(多),3. Sense: the meaning of meaning Every word that has meaning has sense, but not every word has reference (but, yes,.),Chapter 5 Word Meaning and Componential Analysis,5.1 mot

28、ivation (意义的)理据 语言符号与意义之间的联系（依据） 1. Onomatopoeic Motivation （拟声） tick-tuck; cuckoo; quack; (see the exercise) 2. Morphological Motivation Airmail mail by air; hopeless without hope But “greenhorn” is an exception,3. Semantic Motivation,e.g. The pen is mightier than the sword He is fond of the bottle

29、. The mouth of the river 常用的主要手段: A. metaphor (without like as) 隐喻 e.g. Life is a short summer. e.g. All the world is a stage.,b. metonymy(借代),The crown- king The Cambridge in the East Zhejiang Univ. C. Synecdoche (提喻) A part represents the whole, or vice versa The White House American government,4.

30、 Etymological Motivation,Pen-羽毛-笔 laconic-Lacons(部落)-简要的 It seems in English most of the words have no evident motivations.,Componential Analysis,Break down the sense of a word into its minimal components(traits),Semantic features,Man: +human +male +adult Woman: +human -male +adult Boy, girl 可类推 boy

31、 girl ,The chair smiles happily. Why is this sentence odd?,Chapter Six,Sense Relations,Polysemy (多义关系） The development of a words semantic structure results in this phenomenon. 辐射型 radiation( “soft”) soft wind, soft words, soft drink, soft money, soft light, . 连锁型 concatenation (the original meaning

32、 is lost finally) Candidate-white-robed-候选人,2. Homonymy（同形同音异义关系）,1） perfect homonyms(same spelling and pronunciation) bank bear date 2) homograph(same spelling only) bow弓 bow鞠躬;,3) homophone(same pronunciation only),dear, deer right, write, rite sight, cite,3. Synonymy Most synonyms are relative sy

33、nonyms. stagger, reel, totterwalk unsteadily 摇摆； 蹒跚；老人/婴儿的脚步 alter change vary 部分改变（大小、形状等） 本质的变化，或以甲代替乙 侧重变化的多样性: Their clothes in color. Homework: tell the difference of the synonyms: limit; restrict; confine,The differences between synonyms are mainly:,Semantic e.g. comprehend, understand rich, wealthy; work, toil want, wish, desire: 语义强度递增,2)Affective and stylistic difference,statesman politician vocalist singer,4. Antonymy(反义）,1） Complementaries（矛盾反义词） Such as: dead-alive; male-female; same-different; singl