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Lexicology - OEBAA2149Z
Title: Lexicology
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: 10 / 10 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (06.09.2023)
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic issues of the Modern English lexicology. The course addresses the following major areas: the morphological structure of words, word-formation processes, lexical semantics, stylistic stratification of the lexicon and the processes of borrowing. Although the primary perspective will be synchronic, where relevant, the most important historical (linguistic, social-cultural) milestones in the development of the English language will be taken into account. Téma 1: Basic terminology. Characteristic features of the English vocabulary. Téma 2: Morphological structure of words; major and minor word-formation processes. Téma 3: Historical development of the English vocabulary. Téma 4: Collocation. Téma 5: Set expressions. Téma 6: Word meaning; paradigmatic sense relations; figures of speech. Téma 7: Stylistic stratification of the English vocabulary.
Descriptors -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)

Self-study of literature:  8 hours

Work with the study materials:  20 hours

Seminar paper:  5 hours

Preparation for the credit:  15 hours

Preperation for the exam:  25 hours

Literature - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (06.09.2023)

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BAUER, Laurie. English Word-formation, 4th reprint. Cambridge: CUP, 1993. 

BAUER, Laurie. Vocabulary, 4th reprint. London: Routledge, 1998.

BEJAN, Camelia. English Words: Structure, Origin and Meaning, New York: Addleton Academic Publishers, 2017.

CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY, Andrew. An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and their Structure, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

CRUSE, David. A. Meaning in LanguageAn Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. 3rd edition. Oxford: OUP, 2011.

CRYSTAL, David.  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge: CUP, 2018.

ČERMÁK, František. Frazeologie a idiomatika česká a obecná, Praha: Karolinum, 2007.

ČERMÁK, František. Lexikon a Sémantika. Praha: NLN, 2010. 

JACKSON, Howard; ZÉ AMVELA, Etienne. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology. 2nd edition. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. 

KATAMBA, Francis.  English Words. London: Routledge, 1994.

LAKOFF, George and JOHNSON, Mark. Metaphors we Live by, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

MCCARTHY, Michael. Vocabulary. Oxford: OUP, 1990.

MOON, Rosamond.  Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

MURPHY, Lynne. Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy, and Other Paradigms. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

MURPHY, Lynne. Lexical Meaning. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.

PEPRNÍK, Jaroslav. English Lexicology. 2nd edition. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2003. 

QUIRK, Randolph. et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. 2nd Revised edition. London: Longman, 1985. 

VACHEK, Josef. Chapters from Modern English Lexicology and Stylistics. Praha: SPN, 1991. 

VOGEL, Radek. Terminologies, Lexical Hierarchies and Other Configurations. Brno: Masaryk University, 2017.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (06.09.2023)

 An exam - a written test. Students have to achieve the minimum of 70%. There are two resits. In order to take the exam, students have to complete the obligatory exercises by a set date. 

Syllabus - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (06.09.2023)

Week 1  Introduction to lexicology; key terms (word-morpheme-lexeme-sign). Lexical and grammatical system; open and closed word classes. 

Week 2 Morphological structure of words. Word formation – affixation.

Week 3 Word formation – compounding, conversion.

Week 4 Minor word-formation processes (blending, back-formation, clipping, abbreviations, acronyms)

Week 5 Historical development of the English word-stock. Borrowing and etymology; types of loans and the process of domestication. Linguistic characterology of the English word-stock. 

Week 6 Syntagmatic sense relations. Collocation.  

Week 7 Set expressions (e.g. phrasal verbs, idioms, proverbs, sayings, catch-phrases). Transparent vs opaque words.

Week 8 Word Meaning. Meaning and form (arbitrariness and motivation). Types of meaning (denotation, connotation).  

Week 9 Paradigmatic sense relations (synonymy, oppositeness, meronymy, hyperonymy-hyponymy)

Week 10 Polysemy. Figures of speech (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification).

Week 11 Word-stock Layers. Registers. Style. Centre and periphery of the English word-stock. 

Week 12 Revision.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)

1.  Active participation in seminars - execercises, discussions, homework presentation, study of relevant literature. The topics are based on the syllabus and homework is cheched every week.

2.  The seminar paper takes the form of tasks and exercises to be done at home; the topics reflect the syllabus and the issues dealt with during the lecture and seminars. The completion of these tasks will be required by a set date, the deadline will be announed at the beginning of the course. Participation in these tasks is a condition for a successful comletion of the whole course and a prerequisite for taking the exam. 

3. An exam - a written test. Students have to achieve the minimum of 70%. There are two resits. 

 
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