LEXICAL RELATIONS A. Collocation The problems non-native speakers may have with English vocabulary use - in particular with the appropriate combinations of words. This is an aspect of language called collocation. An example of collocation that many learners of English may be familiar with is the different adjectives that are used to describe a good-looking man and a good-looking woman. We talk of a beautiful woman and of a handsome man‚ but rarely of a beautiful man or a handsome woman. A collocation
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of compounds. 19. Contrastive analysis of noun compounds in English and Ukrainian. 20. Referential vs functional approach to meaning. 21. The notion of polysemy. 22. Systemic organization of lexicon. 23. Semantic change: metaphor. 24. Semantic change: metonymy. 25. Semantic change: hyperbole‚ litotes‚ irony. 26. Euphemisms and politically correct terms. 27. Types of varieties of a language. 28. Stylistically marked classes of words. 29. Types of literary-bookish words. 30. Neologisms:
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stretching without break Semantics: the transference of the mode of action; common semantic characteristic – duration of the process; Originality: genuine; Expressiveness: the gap between associated modes is quite wide; Syntactic function: verb; Vividness: vivid‚ the reality is shown in underlining that the action is really long; Elaboration of the created image: single metaphor. b) devouring prairie Semantics: the transference of the typical characterization; common semantic characteristic – vast;
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LECTURES ON ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY INTRODUCTION The book is intended for English language students at Pedagogical Universities taking the course of English lexicology and fully meets the requirements of the programme in the subject. It may also be of interest to all readers‚ whose command of English is sufficient to enable them to read texts of average difficulty and who would like to gain some information about the vocabulary resources of Modern English (for example‚ about synonyms and antonyms)
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Units 18 § 1.5 The Notion of Lexical System 21 § 1.6 The Theory of Oppositions 25 Part One THE ENGLISH WORD AS A STRUCTURE Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Word as the Basic Unit of Language ... 27 § 2.1 The Definition of the Word 27 § 2.2 Semantic Triangle 31 § 2.3 Phonetic‚
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perspective‚ are groups of words that share the same orthographical and phonological characteristics‚ yet do not share the same semantic meaning. There are a number of theoretical perspectives pertaining to the root cause of how two separate word meanings are able to converge on the same phonological representation‚ or how a single word is able to separate into diverse and separate semantic meanings. But the term ’polysemy’ refers to something that is intrinsically more complex‚ and as Klein and Murphy
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its connection with phonetics‚ grammar‚ stylistics & contrastive linguistics. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that deals with the lexical component of language. The lexicon holds information about the phonetic‚ phonological‚ syntactic‚ semantic and pragmatic properties of words and consequently has a central role in these levels of analysis. It is also a major area of investigation in other areas of linguistics‚ such as psycholinguistics‚ typological linguistics and language acquisition
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Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1. Lexical problems of translation…………………………………… 1.1 Complete lexical correspondences……………………………………… 1.2 Partial lexical correspondences…………………………………………. 1.3 Absence of lexical correspondences…………………………………… Chapter 2. Lexical difficulties of translation ………………………………….. 2.1 Types of lexical transformations……………………………………… 2.2 Translation of words having no correspondence in TL……………… Conclusion…………………………………………………………………
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particularly important to study the semantic characteristics and pragmatic functions of synonymy in media discourse‚ whose basic text is a news item. The aim of this course paper is to determine the semantic potential of synonyms in the electronic version of the English media discourse and the nature of their implementation in the studied form of communication based on the study of their functioning. The aim of the study
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CHANGE Of MEANING Word-meaning is liable to change in the course of the historical development of language. Changes of lexical meaning may be illustrated by a diachronic semantic analysis of many commonly used English words. The word fond (OE. fond) used to mean ‘foolish’‚ ‘foolishly credulous’; glad (OE‚ glaed) had the meaning of ‘bright’‚ ’shining’ and so on. Change of meaning has been thoroughly studied and as a matter of fact monopolised the attention of all semanticists whose work up to the
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