词汇学PPT课件

Major Features of Words
1. A word is a sound or combination of sounds which we make voluntarily with out vocal equipment.
Major Features of Words
2. A word is symbolic and is used to stand for something else. In each language, sounds are used to represent objects, happenings, or ideas.
5. A word may consist of one or more morphemes. It can be broken down into smaller meaningful units.
Major Features of Words
6. Words are part of the large communication system we call language. A word is partly dependent for meaning upon its use in that larger context.
1. Definition of a Word
A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound, meaning and syntactic function.（张维友）
Definition of a word
daydream
Mew-mew喵 喵
Naturalists
There is an intrinsic
correspondence
between
sound and meaning.
Conventionalists
Chinese
English
肉
French
meat
viande
Italian carne
Swedish kőtt
Major Features of Words
3. The word is an uninterruptible unit. When elements are added to a word to modify its meaning, they never interrupt the internal stability of the word.
I can understand all the words, but I don’t understand the sentening and grammatical meaning
Chapter One A General
Survey
毛海燕
A general survey
1. Definition of a word 2. Sound and meaning 3. Word and lexical item
Eat them all !
4. Meaning and concept
Major Features of Words
7. A word occurs typically in the structure of phrases. In typical way, morphemes are used to build words, words to build phrases, phrases to build clauses, and clauses to build
5. Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning
6. Word and vocabulary
7. Constitution of English vocabulary
1. Definition of a Word
He had done it, he had said the magic words. He stopped there to enjoy the effect of these words.
1. Definition of a Word
I love you!
I hate you!
1. Definition of a Word
What is a word?
Major Features of Words
What are the major features of words?
（杨信彰，2009）
sound meaning syntactic feature
2. Sound and meaning
Is sound related to meaning?
2. Sound and meaning
Naturalists
Conventionalists
Naturalists
Mom 妈妈
Woof 汪汪
Russian mЯco
Conventionalists
The relationship between sound and meaning is a kind of linguistic social contract.
3. Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning
1. Definition of a Word
Generally speaking, a word is a unification of sounds, meaning and syntactic features, and is the fundamental structural unit of a sentence.（陆国强）
Major Features of Words
4. A word has to do with its social function. It helps human beings interact culturally with one another – “communicate”.
Major Features of Words