1. Антрушина г.Б. И др. Лексикология английского языка: учеб. Пособие для студ.- 3- е изд., стер.- м.: Дрофа, 2001.- 288с. Морф

2. Баграмова н.В., Блинова с.И. Практика английского языка: Сб. Упражнений по лексике: учеб. Пособие.- сПб: Союз, 2001.- 144с.

3. Гвищиани Н.Б. Современный английский язык: Лексикология = Modern English Studies: Lexicology: учеб. пособие. – М.: Академия, 2007.-224с.

4. Зыкова И.В. Практический курс английской лексикологии= A practical Course of English Lexicology: учебное пособие (на англ. языке)

5. Трофимова Э.С. Словарь новых слов и значений в английском языке. M: «Павлин», 1993.

Электронные учебники

1. Arnold I.V. The English Word. M, 1986. -P.219-221.

2. Ginzburg R.S. et. al. A Course on Modem English Lexicology. M., 1979. - P.180-193.

Questions

l. How can we prove the dynamic character of the English vocabulary?

2.Why does some part of the vocabulary grow old and go to the periphery of the lan­guage's vocabulary?

3. Under what circumstances do obsolete words receive?

4. What dictionaries of new words do you know?

5. What are the productive ways of building neologisms?

8. What is the difference between neologisms and occasional words?

Assignments

Assignments 1.

Define Extralinguistic Background of the Following Historisms:

Clavichord, frigate, musket, hoopskirt, galley, soaper, gauntlet, childe.

Assignments 2.

Substitute Modem Forms and Words for:

Quoth, thine, ye, kine, albeit, thy, eke, bade.

Assignments 3.

Give Modem Synonyms to the Following Obsolete Words:

Spoil-paper, carry-tail, nose-wise, eldern, disport, fisher.

Assignments 4.

Outline Semantic Spheres in Which the Following Neologisms are Used:

Intifada, AIDS, preschooler, Thatcherism, washeteria, pulsar, bookaholic, wrongo, bionics, deglamorize.

Assignments 5.

Find Russian Equivalents for the Following Neologisms:

Arrestee, laser card, narcodolars, televangelist, video jockey, relaunch, beach music, leonovise, paramedic, robototics.

Assignments 6.

Comment on the Meaning of the Following Occasionalisms:

Lord-and-masterdom, nostalgia-monger, womanthrope, word-waster, to pretend-read, Harvardism, monomania, not-my-cup-of-teaness, library-grinding, waspitality.

Лабораторное задание 7

Regional Varieties of the English Language

1. The English-speaking world. American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Indian variants of the English language.

2. The historical background of the development of the American variant of the Eng­lish language.

3. Lexical peculiarities of American English:

a) Total divergency of lexical units in BE and AE;

b) Divergency of lexical units in BE and AE for the same denotatum;

c) Difference of semantic structure of partially equivalent words in BE and AE;

d) Lexical units in BE and AE equivalent in form and meaning but different in dis­tribution;

e) Connotational divergencies of the same lexical units in BE and AE

f) Different frequency distribution of identical lexical units in BE and AE.

4. The prospect of linguistic bonds across the Atlantic.

5. Peculiarities of word-building process in AE.

6. The development of American lexicography. Reference books:

Reference Books

6. Антрушина г.Б. И др. Лексикология английского языка: учеб. Пособие для студ.- 3- е изд., стер.- м.: Дрофа, 2001.- 288с. Морф

7. Баграмова н.В., Блинова с.И. Практика английского языка: Сб. Упражнений по лексике: учеб. Пособие.- сПб: Союз, 2001.- 144с.

8. Гвищиани Н.Б. Современный английский язык: Лексикология = Modern English Studies: Lexicology: учеб. пособие. – М.: Академия, 2007.-224с.

9. Зыкова И.В. Практический курс английской лексикологии= A practical Course of English Lexicology: учебное пособие (на англ. языке)

10. Трофимова Э.С. Словарь новых слов и значений в английском языке. M: «Павлин», 1993.

Электронные учебники

1. Arnold I.V. The English Word. M, 1986. -P.219-221.

2. Ginzburg R.S. et. al. A Course on Modem English Lexicology. M., 1979. - P.180-193.

Questions

1. What is the difference between a dialect and a variant of English? Is AE a sepa­rate language?

2. In what spheres of the language do we state the most obvious divergencies be­tween British English and American English?

3. What are the main lexical differences between BE and AE?

4. What were the causes of deviations of AE from BE?

Assignments

Assignment 1.

Characterize the Following Americanisms Against Their Socio-cultural

Background:

Prohibition, barracoon, sorority, wrangler, barbecue, vietnik, nickel, repeal, watcher, campus, drive-in, dude ranch, the Depression, forty-niner, canvasser.

Assignment 2.

Discriminate "Between, Different Ways of Word-Building in the Following Americanisms:

Baddie, patriotism, ambulance-chaser, draftee, hitch-hiker, bosso, luncheteria, Dallasgate, payola, sleep-in, dopelomate, tryout.

Assignments.

Find American Equivalents to Their British Counterparts:

Flat, elevator, corridor, waistcoat, chemist's shop, season ticket, secondary school, lorry, tin, sweets, pillar-box, autumn, shop, biscuit, think, wireless, trou­sers.

Reference books