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1、EnglishLexicologyQinjianpingChapteroneLanguage,LinguisticsandLexicologyStep1Discuss:Whatislexicologyandwhydoweneedtostudyit?a.Lexicologyisabranchoflinguistics,concernedwiththestudyofthevocabularyofagivenlanguage.Itdealswithwords,theirorigin,development,history,structure,meani
2、ngandapplication.Inshort,itisthestudyofthesignificationandapplicationofwords.Itaimsatinvestigatingandstudyingthemorphologicalstructures,semanticstructures,relations,formationandusages.Itisatheoretically-orientedcourseaswellasapracticalcourse.20092WordsmeaningandComponentialan
3、alysisb.Whydowestudyit?Thethreeelementsoflanguage:speechsound,grammarandvocabulary.(allthewordsinalanguagemakeupvocabulary.Italsoreferstoallthewordsofagivendialect,book,disciplineandanindividualperson.)ItwillhelpustoenlargethevocabularyandimprovetheabilitytoanalyzeanduseEngli
4、shwords.Withoutgrammar,verylittlecanbeconveyed,withoutwords,nothingcanbeconveyed.20093WordsmeaningandComponentialanalysisc.Linguisticsisthescientificorsystematicstudyoflanguage.Itstudiestherules,systemsandprinciplesofhumanlanguage.Itconcernswithawiderangeoflinguisticphenomena
5、,analyzesthemandmakesgeneralstatements(thenatureoflanguage)aboutthem.Itsbranchescoverphonology,phonetics,syntax,semantics,lexicology,morphologyetc.d.Languagecanbedefinedas“asystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsusedforhumancommunication.20094WordsmeaningandComponentialanalysisStep2The
6、connectionoflexicologywithotherbranchesoflinguisticsa.withphonetics,whichisthestudyofspeechsoundsmadeinspoken,withoutspeechsound,thereisnowordbecauseeverywordisaunityofsoundandmeaning.(Duality:onedesignfeatureofhumanlanguage,whichreferstothepropertyofhavingtwolevels:soundslev
7、elandmeaninglevel.)20095WordsmeaningandComponentialanalysisb.withgrammarc.withmorphology,whichisthestudyoftheinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesbywhichwordsareformed.Somewordscanbeanalyzedintosmallermeaningfulcomponents,likedislike=dis-+-like.Thesecomponentsarecalledmorphemes
8、.Theycannotbefurtheranalyzedintosmallerunits.Sowecansaywordsconsisto
