EnglishLexicology(英语词汇学)1.EnglishlexicologyaimsatinvestigatingandstudyingthemorphologicalstructuresofEnglishwordsandwordequivalents,theirsemanticstructures,relations,historicaldevelopment,formationandusages.英语词汇学旨在调查和研究英语单词和单词的等价物的形态结构,其语义结构、关系、历史发展、形成和用法。2.EnglishLexicologyiscorrelatedwithsuchlinguisticdisciplinesasmorphology(形态学),semantics(语义学),etymology(词源学),stylistics(文体论)andlexicography(词典学)Chapter1--Basicconceptsofwordsandvocabulary1.Word(词的定义):Awordisaminimalfreeformofalanguagethathasagivensoundandmeaningandsyntacticfunction.(1)aminimalfreeformofalanguage(2)asoundunity(3)aunitofmeaning(4)aformthatcanfunctionaloneinasentence词语是语言最小的自由形式,拥有固定的声音和意义以及句法作用。2.Soundandmeaning(声音与意义):almostarbitrary,“nologicalrelationshipbetweenthesoundwhichstandsforathingoranideaandtheactualthingandideaitself”3.Soundandform(读音和形式):不统一的四个原因(1)theEnglishalphabetwasadoptedfromtheRomans,whichdoesnothaveaseparatelettertorepresenteachother(2)thepronunciationhaschangedmorerapidlythanspellingovertheyears(3)someofthedifferencewerecreatedbytheearlyscribes(4)theborrowingsisanimportantchannelofenrichingtheEnglishvocabulary(5)printing、standardization、dictionary—OldEnglish,Thespeechofthetimewasrepresentedverymuchmorefaithfullyinwritingthanitistoday.古代英语中的口语比今天更忠实的代表书面语—ThewrittenformofEnglishisanimperfectrepresentationofthespokenform。英语的书写是发音形式不完善的代表4.Whatisvocabulary?(1)Totalnumberofthewordsinalanguage一个语言的单词综合(2)Wordsusedinaparticularhistoricalperiod特殊历史时期使用的单词(3)Allthewordsofadialect,abook,adiscipline...某个方言,书籍,学科中的所有单词5.ClassificationofEnglishWords:Byusefrequency:basicwordstock&nonbasicvocabularyBynotion:contentwords&functionalwordsByorigin:nativewords&borrowedwords6.Thebasicwordstock(基本词汇):isthefoundationofthevocabularyaccumulatedovercenturiesandformsthecommoncoreofthelanguage.ThoughitconstituteasmallpercentageoftheEV,itisthemostimportantpartofvocabulary.基础词是几世纪积累的词汇的基础,构成语言的核心。尽管基础词占英语词汇比例小,它仍然是最重要的组成部分。7.TheFundamentalFeaturesoftheBasicWordStock(基本词汇的基本特征):1)All-Nationalcharacter(全民通用性mostimportant)2)Stability(相对稳定性relative)3)Productivity(多产性aremostlyrootwordsormonosyllabicwords)4)Polysemy(多义性)5)Collocability(可搭配性)8.nonbasicvocabulary(1)Terminology(术语)(2)Jargon(行话)(3)slang(俚语)(4)Argot(暗语)(5)Dialectalwords(方言)(6)Archaisms(古语)(7)Neologisms(新词语):Neologismsmeansnewly-createdwordsorexpressions,orwordsthathavetakenonnewmeanings.(email)9.—Terminologyconsistsoftechnicaltermsusedinparticulardisciplinesandacademicareasasinmedicine、inmathematics、inmusic、ineducation.包括特定学科的技术术语和学术领域—Jargonreferstothespecializedvocabulariesbywhichmembersofparticulararts,sciences,tradesandprofessionscommunicateamongthemselves用于特定的词汇,通过特定艺术,科学,商业和专业领域的成员在彼此之间交流—Slangbelongstothesub-standardlanguage,acategorythatseemstostandbetweenthestandardgeneralwordsincludinginformalonesavailabletoeveryoneandin-groupwordslikecant,jargon,andargot俚语粗话属于低等语言,处在标准通用语言,(包括每人用的非正式词汇)和团体内部语言包括cant(任何下等团体的行话),jargons,argot10.slangiscolourful,blunt,expressiveandimpressive俚语生动,直率,印象深刻而且感人11.Certainwordsarelabeled'slang'notbecausetheirappearanceorpronunciationbutbecauseoftheirusage特定词被标示为“俚语”不是因为他们的写法和发音,而是因为他们的用法12.Contentwords/notionalwords实词Contentwordsdenoteclearnotionsandthusareknownasnotionalwords.Theyincludenouns,verbs,adjectives,adverbsandnumerals内容词表示清楚的概念,因为被认为是概念词。他们包括名词,动词。形容词,副词和数词13.functionalwords/emptywords虚词Functionalwordsdonothavenotionsoftheirown.Therefore,theyarealsocalledemptywords.Astheirchieffunctionistoexpresstherelationbetweennotions,therelationbetweenwordsaswellasbetweensentences,theyareknownasformwords.Prepositions,conjunctions,auxiliariesandarticlesbelongtothiscategory.功能词没有他们自己的概念。因此,他们也称作“空词”。由于他们的主要功能是去表达概念间的关系,词语间和句子间的关系,他们被认为是“结构词”。介词,连词,辅助词和冠词属于这一类14.区别:Contentwords,whichconstitutethemainbodyoftheEnglishvocabulary,arenumerous,andthenumberisevergrowingwhereasfunctionalwords,whichmakeupaverysmallnumberofthevocabulary,remainstable.However,functionalwordsdofarmoreworkofexpressioninEnglishonaveragethancontentwords内容词,构成了英语词汇的主体,是数量多的。并且那数量还在增长,然而,功能词,只占词汇的很少一部分,保持稳定。然而,功能词比内容词在表达上做了更多的工作15.Nativewords:1.Neutralinstyle风格中性2.Frequentinuse使用频繁(1)WordsofAnglo-Saxonoriginaresmallinnumber,amountingtoroughly50,000to60,000盎格鲁撒克逊源头词数量很少,大约在50000到60000之间(2)theyformthemainstreamofthebasicwordstock他们构成了基本词汇的主流(3)standatthecoreofthelanguage处在语言的核心16.Wordstakenoverfromforeignlanguagesareknownasborrowedwordsorloanwordsorborrowingsinsimpleterms从外国带来的词被认为是“借词”“借代词”或者“所借的”17.DenizensarewordsborrowedearlyinthepastandnowwellassimilatedintotheEnglishlanguage.同化词是过去早期借词,现在很好的同化进了英语Aliensareborrowedwordswhichhaveretainedtheiroriginalpronunciationandspelling非同化词是保留了原始发音和拼写的借词Translation-loansarewordsandexpressionsformedfromtheexistingmaterialintheEnglishlanguagebutmodelledonthepatternstakenfromanotherlanguage.翻译借词是从英语中的现有材料中取材构成,但是模仿其他语言的构成方式。Semantic-loans.Wordsofthiscategoryarenotborrowedwithreferencetotheform.Buttheirmeaningsareborrowed.借义词这类词不是参考形式借来,但是他们的意义是借来的。Chapter2thedevelopmentoftheEnglishVocabulary1.TheEnglishlanguageisnotthelanguageoftheearlyinhabitantsoftheBritishIsl