LECTURE 1

PREFACE

The course of Lexicology is elaborated for the fourth and fifth years students of Pedagogical Universities, who study English as their key subject and calculated for 18 lectures and 20 seminars. It includes such aspects of work as lectures and plans of seminars which comprise the main themes of Modern English Lexicology. They are language units, wordbuilding, semantic changes, borrowings, abbreviations, semasiology, neology, phraseology. The material for seminars includes topics for discussion and argumentation. It also contains various terms and exercises which are tightly connected with the given themes. The exercises on word-structure will help students to get a better insight into the morphology and meaning of derivatives and compounds. Exercises on phraseology will provide sufficient material for the fundamental analysis of the most typical and common phraseological units in speech. They may be used at the lessons of written practise and translation. Lexical tasks for the detailed analysis are chosen mainly among all themes of the discipline.

There is also the brief list of additional literature sources in the end of the book.

The main purpose of the course is to help students to enlarge their vocabulary owing to different special terms, to teach them to recognize the origin of lexical units, to assist to guess the meaning of the words according to the context and to improve language skills.

LECTURE 1