Темы докладов

1. Borrowings from Romanic languages.

2. English derivation.

3. English non-pattern word-formation.

4. English Shortenings.

5. Semantic fields and thematic groups.

6. English euphemisms.

7. Polysemy in English.

8. Hyponyms and hyperonyms.

9. English and Russian phraseology.

10. Australian and Canadian English.

11. American English.

12. British English.

13. Semantic development of English words.

14. English Neologisms of the 20^th century.

15. The etymology of English affixes.

16. Metaphor and metonymy in English.

17. The historical aspect of English borrowings.

18. Classifications of phraseological units.

19. Word theory in linguistics.

20. Stylistic synonymy.

21. Paradigmatic relations in the lexical system.

22. Folk etymology in Russian and English.

23. Non-productive ways of word-formation in English.

24. English proverbs and sayings.

25. English lexicography.

План лекций Shortening

1. Two approaches the correlation of a shortened word with its prototype

2. Classification: apocope, aphaeresis, syncope,

3. Ellipsis

4. Blending (fusion)

5. Abbreviations. Acronyms

Semaseology

1. Seme. Sememe.

2. Referential and functional approaches.

3. Types of mg: lexical and grammatical; denotational and connotational.

4. Change of meaning: narrowing and widening of meaning.

5. Processes of generalization and specialization.

Polysemy

1. Diachronical and synchronical approaches

2. Role of a context in understanding a word: lexical, grammatical, extra-linguistic.

3. Metaphor: anthropomorphic, dead /live, spread .

4. Metonymy, synecdoche.

Homonymy

1. Homonyms proper.

2. Homophones

3. Paronyms

4. Diachronical and synchronical approaches

5. Difference from polysemy

6. Homonymy in morphology and syntax

Relations of Similarity and Polarity

Synonyms

1. Difference between pairs of synonyms: spheres of application, origin (native – borrowed), stylistic application. Relations of inclusion between pairs of synonyms. Quasi-synonyms.

2. Basis for synonymy: denotational and connotational meaning.

3. Recognition of synonyms: criterion of referent, criterion of interchangeability.

4. Synonymy in morphemes, phrases, sentences.

Antonyms

1. Basis for antonymy: degree of a quality, direction of action, polar sites in space and time. Non-nominative types of mg.

Other types of words based on polarity of meaning. Two-member opposition: complementary antonyms. Reverse relations: reversives (conversives).

Relations of inclusion

1. Hyponymy – Hyperonymy

Other groups of wds

1. Lexico-grammatical group

2. Semantic field

3. Terminology

Phraseology

1. Terminology: set expressions, phrases, phraseological units, idioms, collocations.

2. Free word groups / phraseological units.

3. Classification: phraseological fusions, phraseological unities, phraseological collocations

4. National peculiarities of phraseological units.

5. Translation

6. International phraseological units

7. Criterion to differentiate fixed and free word groups.

8. Synonymic and antonymic pairs of phrases.

Variants and dialects of the English language.

1. Different variants and dialects of English.

2. Status of British and American English

3. History of American English

4. Influences from the different cultures and languages

American English

1. Peculiarities in phonetics.

2. Peculiarities in spelling.

3. Peculiarities in vocabulary. Reasons. Different groups of Americanisms.

4. Peculiarities in grammar.