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1、EnglishLexicology英语词汇学Textbook AReaderofEnglishLexicology汪榕培王之江吴晓维Introduction0.1ThenatureanddomainofEnglishLexicologyLexicologyisthebranchoflinguisticsconcernedwiththestudyofthevocabularyofagivenlanguage.Itdealswithwords,theirorigins,development,structures,mean
2、ings,relations,andusages.EnglishLexicologyinvestigatesandstudiesthemorphologicalstructuresofEnglishwordsandwordequivalents,theirsemanticstructures,relations,historicaldevelopment,formationandusages.Nature:Englishlexicologyisatheoretically-orientedcourse.However,
3、itisapracticalcourseaswell.Englishlexicologyhascloserelationswithotherbranchesoflinguistics,suchasphonetics,grammar,stylistics,andsoon.Butitembracesotheracademicdisciplines,suchasmorphology,semantics,etymology,stylisticsandlexicography.Eachofthemhasbeenestablish
4、edasadisciplineinitsown-right.0.2Itsrelationtootherdisciplines:MorphologystudiesthestructuresorformsofwordsthroughtheuseofmorphemeconstructEtymologystudiestheoriginsandhistoryoftheformandmeaningofwords.Semanticsstudiesthemeaningsofwordsandsenserelations:polysemy
5、,homonymy,synonymy,antonomy,hyponmy,andsemanticfieldStylisticsisconcernedwiththeuser’schoicesoflinguisticelementsinaparticularcontextforspecialeffects.Lexicographyshareswithlexicologythesameproblems:theform,meaning,originsandusagesofwords,buttheyhaveapragmaticdi
6、fference..Alexicographer’staskistorecordthelanguageasitisusedsoastopresentthegenuinepictureofwordstothereader,Providingauthoritativereference,whereasthestudentoflexicologyistoacquiretheknowledgeandinformationoflexissoastoincreasetheirlexicalawarenessandcapacityo
7、flanguageuse.ThoughEnglishlexicologyhasawidecoverageofacademicareas,ourtaskisdefiniteandconsistent.ThatistostudyEnglishwordsindifferentaspectsandfromdifferentangles.TheroleofvocabularyinthelanguagesystemVocabularyisthebuildingmaterialofthelanguagesystem.Itisoneo
8、fthethereessentialelementsoflanguage:speechsounds,grammarandvocabulary.“Withoutgrammarverylittlecanbeconveyed,withoutvocabularynothingcanbeconveyed.”“…thereisasensein
