- •Internet sources:
- •Lecture # 2. Theme: “Semasiology” (2 hours)
- •Lecture # 3. Theme: “Semantic change ”(2 hours)
- •Lecture # 4. Theme: “Word-formation system of English language” (2 hours)
- •1. Semantic classification
- •Origin of prefixes:
- •Module # 2 Lecture # 5. Theme: “English vocabulary as a system” (2 hours)
- •1) Formal vocabulary (learned words, fiction, poetry).
- •2) Informal vocabulary (slang, dialect words, colloquial words)
- •Lecture # 6. Theme: “Classification of vocabulary according to meaning: Synonyms” (2 hours)
- •Lecture # 7. Theme: “Word combinations and phraseological units” (3 hours)
- •1. The thematic or etymological classification of phraseological units suggested by l.P.Smith.
- •2. The semantic classification of phraseological units suggested by V.V.Vinogradov.
- •3. The structural classification of phraseological units suggested by a.I.Smirnitsky.
- •4. The syntactical classification of phraseological units suggested by I.V.Arnold.
- •5. Classication of phraseological units according to their functions suggested by a.V.Koonin.
- •Theme # 2: “Semasiology” (2 hours)
- •Theme # 3: “Semantic change” (2 hours)
- •Theme # 4: “Word-formation system of English language” (2 hours)
- •Module # 2 Theme # 5: “English vocabulary as a system” (2 hours)
- •Theme # 6: “Classification of vocabulary according to meaning: Synonyms” (2 hours)
- •Theme # 7: “Word combinations and phraseological units” (2 hours)
- •Tutorial # 2. Theme: “Affixation” (2 hours)
- •Semantic classification
- •Origin of prefixes:
- •Origin of suffixes.
- •Productivity.
- •Module 2 Tutorial # 4. Theme: “Social and territorial difference of English vocabulary” (2 hours)
- •Tutorial # 5. Theme: “Classification of vocabulary according to form: Homonyms” (2 hours)
- •Tutorial # 6. Theme: “Classification of vocabulary according to meaning: Antonyms” (2 hours)
- •Tutorial # 7. Theme: “Contrastive Lexicology and Phraseology” (2 hours)
- •Theme # 2: “Ways of formation and classification ways of idioms” (15 hours)
- •Theme # 3: “Lexicography” (15 hours)
Theme # 2: “Semasiology” (2 hours)
Subtheme # 1: “Semasiology and semantics”
Case study tasks:
1. You have been asked to give a summary of a lecture about semasiology and semantic, then make an outline how to present to the students.
2. Make a list of problems that semasiology deals with and then rank the problems in order of importance. Then give short characteristics to each of them.
Problematic tasks:
1. Give the difference between semasiology and semantics.
2. Show the difference between a meaning and a word.
3. Prove that semasiology is the central or basic problem of Lexicology.
Subtheme # 2: “The objects of semasiological study”
Case study tasks:
1. List out all the objects that semasiology deals with then give your points of view on them. Then consider which object is important and prove what makes you think so. Illustrate your answer with scientific theoretical issues.
2. Make a presentation concerning the given theme. Think carefully about what concessions you are willing to make, then present it to class.
Problematic tasks:
1. Give different semantic development of words and their causes that exist in Lexicology.
2. Give the types of semantic groupings in the vocabulary system of English lexicology.
Subtheme # 3: “The meaning of the words and its types”
Case study tasks:
1. State out the types of word meaning from the given list. There are some variants which are extra.
1) linguistic, 2) extra-linguistic, 3) lexical, 4) general, 5) grammatical, 6) connotational,
7) semantic, 8) stylistic, 9) differential, 10) denotational, 11) morphological, 12) distributional
2. Analyze the types of word-meaning and give the types of meaning of the following words:
To go, a motherland, a branch, patriotic, to work
3. Make a presentation of each type of meaning and give examples as much as possible, compare with Kazakh and Russian languages.
4. Find out the basic or main types of word meaning from the list and explain your choice.
Lexical, connotational, part-of-speech, denotational, grammatical, differential, distributional
5. Analyze the following epigram by Oscar Wilde and explain which types of word-meaning do exist.
“Men can be analysed, women – merely adored”
Problematic tasks:
1. State out the causes that at present there is no universally accepted definitions of meaning.
2. Give the differences between analytical, functional, operational categories of definitions of meaning.
3. Prove why the semantic triangle is important in analytical or referential definition of meaning.
4. Choose the main category of definition of meaning from the three and state out the facts.
5. Describe each type of word meaning and find out the main types.
4. Point out the four types of connotations and give characteristic features of each type.
Subtheme # 4: “Motivation and its types”.
Case study tasks:
1. Pick up the examples of semantic motivation from the list and comment on your choice.
Changeable, reproduce, the foot of the mountains, swing, splash, retell, the hand of a kettle, mother country, eatable, pook, boom, the branch of a science, the leg of a table
2. Pick up the examples of morphological motivation and explain your choice.
Bang, rethink, the mouth of a river, cuckoo, buzz, prefabricate, self-propelling, vitaminize, the eye of a needle, whistle, faded, motherland
3. Pick up the examples of phonetic motivation from the list and explain your choice.
Bang, rethink, the mouth of a river, cuckoo, buzz, prefabricate, gurgle, self-propelling, vitaminize, the eye of a needle, whistle, faded, motherland, cock-a-doodle-do
Problematic tasks:
1. Show the difference between motivated and non-motivated words.
2. Express your points of view if it is possible that one word may combine different types of motivation.
3. Introduce what type of motivation is important from the three.
4. Define why words should be motivated.
Subtheme # 5: “Polysemy”
Case study tasks:
1. Discuss the problems of polysemy and identify the drawbacks of polysemy in certain languages. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of having polysemantic words. Say which of them to be best?
2. Make a table of features of polysemantic words in English then compare with your mother tongue.
Problematic tasks:
1. Say the difference between polysemantic and monosemantic words.
2. Express your attitude on the drawbacks of polysemantic words.
3. Prove your points of view why context is a powerful preventative against any misunderstanding of meanings.
4. Express your attitude on having a lot of polysemantic words in languages advantage or disadvantage.