Annotation
The aim of the course is to familiarise students with the lexicology of modern English mainly from the synchronic perspective while considering the key diachronic aspects in the historical socio-cultural context. The main focus is on word-formation and lexicography.
Topic 1: Key terms in lexicology and lexicography; Relevant theses of Prague school; Historical development of English lexis
Topic 2: Teaching and learning vocabulary; Lexicography; Layers of vocabulary; Registers and functional styles
Topic 3: Word-formation processes, classification; Major word-formation processes; Affixation
Topic 4: Conversion; Compounding
Topic 5: Minor word-formation processes
Topic 6: Word meaning; Sense relations between words