英语词汇学串讲(上中下)

英语词汇学串讲<上>

第一讲：

1.考试题形式分为：

Ⅰ.选择题(30分)：完全是考书中的例子，理论与例子的结合,也就是‘Theory’和‘Example’ 的结合。

Ⅱ.填空（10分）：考特例,不是考简单的‘Examples﹑Theory’而是考‘Exceptions’ .

Ⅲ.（10分）考试内容：

ⅰ.Types of meaning changes: 词意变化的种类

ⅱ.Types of meaning : 词义的种类，如：概念意义，联想意义，情感意义等。

ⅲ.Languages branches :语系与语族, 语系如：印欧语系；语族如：一个大的语系下分为那几个小的语族，如：日尔曼语族，斯堪的纳维亚语族等。

ⅳ. Feathers of idioms: 习语的特点

Ⅳ.(10分) 考试内容：

ⅰ.Types of Bound Morphemes: 粘着词素的种类

ⅱ.Types of Word Formations: 构词法的种类

ⅲ.Types of Meaning: 词义的种类

ⅳ.Types of Meaning of Idioms:习语涵义的种类

Ⅴ. 名词解释(10分)：

Ⅵ. 简答题(12分)：

ⅰ.比较题：两种理论/概念之间的区别就叫比较题，比如说‘概念意义与联想意

义有何区别，粘着词素与派生词根有何区别，两种事物与两种理论之间的区别等。

ⅱ.名词解释扩展题：难的名词解释派生的简答题，如:Affected Meaning 名词解释起来太长了，放在简答题里，就成为：What is Affected Meaning, briefly exemplify it.

ⅲ.Optional: 可考可不考的题，往往是给出名词让你举例子

Ⅶ.分析题(18分)：给出例子，让你用理论加以分析。

二. 串讲内容：

Introduction 部分：

Lexicology 这门课算哪一种学科的分支:

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics.

Lexicology和那些重要的学科建立了联系:

1)Morphology 2) Semantics 3) Stylistics 4) Etymology 5) Lexicography词典编纂

研究lexicology 的两大方法:

1) Diachronic approach : 历时语言学

2) Synchronic approach : 共时语言学

e.g. wife

纵观历时语言学的方法论，woman 词义的变化算是词义变化的哪一种模式？

Woman 的词义的变化算Narrowing or specialization

第一章部分：

What is word ?

词具有哪些特点？

词的特点也就是对词的名词解释。

1) A word is a minimal free form of a language;

2) A sound unity or a given sound ;

3) a unit of meaning;

4) a form that can function alone in a sentence.

以上词的四个特点也就是词的名词解释

词的分类（classification of a word）

词根据发音可以分为哪两种词？或者说词根据拼写可以分为哪两类词？

1) simple words 2) complex words

单音节词例子：

e.g. Man and fine are simple

多音节词例子：

e.g. Management, misfortune, blackmail

management 可以次划分为manage 和-ment

misfortune 可以次划分为mis- 和fortune

blackmail 次划分为black 和mail

What is the relationship between sound and meaning?

1)There is ‘no logical relationship between the sound and actual thing.

e.g. dog. cat

2)The relationship between them is conventional.

3) In different languages the same concept can be represented by different sounds.

What is relationship between sound and form?

1)The written form of a natural language is the written record of the oral form. Naturally the written form should agree with the oral form, such as English language.

2)This is fairly true of English in its earliest stage i.e. Old English

3)With the development of the language, more and more differences occur between the two.

What are the great changes that causes illogical relationship or irregularity between sound and form?

1) The internal reason for this is that the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans, which does not have a separate letter to represent each sound in the language so that some letters must do double duty or work together in combination.

2) Another reason is that the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years, and in some cases the two have drawn far apart.

3) A third reason is that some of the differences were created by the early scribes.

4) Finally comes the borrowing, which is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary.

要记住以上四句话中的关键词：

1) influenced by Romans

2) Pronunciation changed

3) early scribes