英语词汇学
1万+ 人选课
更新日期:2025/05/24
开课时间2025/02/19 - 2025/07/31
课程周期24 周
开课状态开课中
每周学时-
课程简介

1. A General Survey of Word

(了解英语词汇的基本概况,例如什么是词,词的意义包括哪些)

2. Main Characteristics of English

(了解英语词汇的基本历史、特点,包括英语词汇发展的历程、最新词汇发展的特点、原因,词的分类等)

3. Morphological Structure of English Words

(了解英语单词的基本结构特点,例如构成词的基本要素,词根、词干、词基等)

4. Major Processes of Word-formation

(了解派生、合成以及转类构词等主要构词法及其特点,派生、合成和转类构词的结构、语义特点)

5. Minor Processes of Word-formation

(了解拼缀、缩略、截短、逆构、叠词等次要构词法及其特点,学会识别常见现代英语词汇的构词特点,通过构词方式理解意义和结构)

6. Motivation

(了解英语词汇的理据,包括词的拟声、形态、语义、词源、逻辑、社会文化方面的理据)

7. Semantic Features and Componential Analysis

(了解英语单词词义的成分特点,学会从成分去分析、理解常见词类如名词、动词、形容词的词义特征,准确掌握词义)

8. Semantic Changes

(了解英语单词词义的变化:扩大、缩小、升格、降格等及其变化的原因)

9. Polysemy and Homonymy

(了解一词多义关系以及同音/同形异义现象,了解一词多义形成的原因,来源,学会应用英语一词多义和同音/同形异义学习英语词汇)

10. Sense Relations

(了解上下义、同义、反义关系,理解不同类型的反义关系,通过上下义、同义、反义关系辅助词汇学习)

11. Association and Collocation

(了解词义的联想和搭配关系,理解词的横组合和纵聚合关系,如何通过词义联想和搭配提高词汇学习效率)

12. English Idioms

(了解英语习语的特点、来源、用法,了解不同类型的习语,掌握地道英语)

13. American English

(了解英国英语与美国英语的差异,了解美国英语的词汇来源、美国英语在词汇上的特点)

课程大纲

Episode 1 A General Survey of Word

  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 I. terminologies
  • 1.3 II. Definition of WORD
  • 1.4 III. Theory of Naming
  • 1.5 VIII. Summary

Episode 2 Sense, reference and meaning

  • 2.1 Sense and reference
  • 2.2 Sense and meaning
  • 2.3 Classification of sense
  • 2.4 I. Semantic Features
  • 2.5 II. Componential Analysis
  • 2.6 Case Grammar and Its Usage
  • 2.7 Summary

Episode 3 Historical development of EV

  • 3.1 I. The Development of EV
  • 3.2 II. Reasons of Its Newest Development
  • 3.3 III. Main Characteristics
  • 3.4 IV. Classification of English Vocabulary
  • 3.5 VI. Summary

Episode 4 Semantic Change

  • 4.1 I. Pairs of Meanings
  • 4.2 II. Diachronic and Synchronic
  • 4.3 III. Types of Semantic Change
  • 4.4 IV. Reasons of Semantic Changes
  • 4.5 Summary

Episode 5 Morphological structure of EV

  • 5.1 I. Morpheme
  • 5.2 II. Allomorph
  • 5.3 III. Classification of Morphemes
  • 5.4 IV. Root Stem Base
  • 5.5 V. Morphological Structure
  • 5.6 VI. A General Study of Word Formation
  • 5.7 VII. Summary

Episode 6 Major word-formation

  • 6.1 I. Derivation/Affixation
  • 6.2 II. Conversion
  • 6.3 III. Compounding/Composition
  • 6.4 IV. Summary

Episode 7 Minir Word-formation

  • 7.1 I. Blending
  • 7.2 II. Acronymy
  • 7.3 III. Clipping/shortening
  • 7.4 IV. Back-formation
  • 7.5 V. Commonization of Proper Names
  • 7.6 VI. Reduplication
  • 7.7 VII. Neoclassical Formation
  • 7.8 VIII. Miscellaneous
  • 7.9 IX. Summary

Episode 8 Motivation

  • 8.1 I. Definition
  • 8.2 II. Opaque and Transparent Words
  • 8.3 III. Types of Motivation
  • 8.4 IV. Loss of Motivation
  • 8.5 Summary

Episode 9 Polysemy and Homonymy

  • 9.1 I. Polysemy
  • 9.2 II. Homonymy
  • 9.3 III. The Relation between Polysemy and Homonymy
  • 9.4 IV. Problem of Polysemy and Homonymy
  • 9.5 V. Stylistic Value of Polysemy and Homonymy
  • 9.6 Summary

Episode 10 Sense Relations

  • 10.1 I. Sense Relations in General
  • 10.2 II. Hyponymy
  • 10.3 III. Synonymy
  • 10.4 IV. Antonymy
  • 10.5 V. Summary

Episode 11 Association and Collocation

  • 11.1 I. Syntagamtic and Paradigmatic Relations
  • 11.2 II. Association
  • 11.3 III. Collocation
  • 11.4 IV. Application of Association and Collocation
  • 11.5 Summary

Episode 12 English Idioms

  • 12.1 I. Definition
  • 12.2 II. Features
  • 12.3 III. Sources
  • 12.4 IV. Classification
  • 12.5 V. Phrasal Verbs
  • 12.6 VI. Proverbs
  • 12.7 VII. Metaphorical and Similized Idioms
  • 12.8 VIII. Binomials and Trinomials
  • 12.9 IX. Flexible Use of Idioms- Parody
  • 12.10 Summary

Episode 13 American English

  • 13.1 I. History and Growth of American English
  • 13.2 II. Characteristics of American English
  • 13.3 III. Differences between AE and BE
  • 13.4 Exercise

Review

  • 14.1 Review outline