英语词汇学

　　本书为全国高等教育自学考试英语专业的统一教材。全书内容丰富，由浅入深地介绍了英语词汇的发展、词汇的基本知识、英语的亲属关系、词的形态结构、词的形成方式、词的意义、语义关系、词义演变、英语习语、英语词典等多方面知识。全书用英文写成，循序渐进，由浅入深，是英语专业学生以及具有中级以上水平的英语学习者欲提高英语水平的理想教材。

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Introduction
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of W0rds and Vocabulary
1．1 What Is a Word
1．2 Sound and Meaning
1．3 Sound and Form
1．4 Vocabulary
1．5 Classification of Words
1．5．1 Basic Word Stock and Nonbasic Vocabulary
1．5．2 Content Words and Functional Words
1．5．3 Native Words and Borrowed Words
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary
2．1 The Indo-European Language Family
2．2 A Historical Overview of the English Vocabulary
2．2．1 Old English(450-1150)
2．2．2 Middle English(1150-1500)
2．2．3 Modern English(1500一up to now)
2．3 Growth of Present-day English Vocabulary
2．4 Modes of Vocabulary Development
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 3 Word Formation
3．1 Morphemes
3．2 Allomorphs
3．3 Types of Morphemes
3．3．1 Free Morphemes
3．3．2 Bound Morphemes
3．4 Root and Stem
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 4 WOrd Formation II
4．1 Affixation
4．1．1 Prefixation
4．1．2 Surfixation
4．2 Compounding
4．2．1 Characteristics of Compounds
4．2．2 Formation of Compounds
4．3 Conversion
4．4 Blending
4．5 Clipping
4．6 Acronymy
4．6．1 Initialisms
4．6．2 Acronyms
4．7 Back-formation
4．8 Words from Proper Names
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 5 Word Meaning
5．1 The Meanings of‘Meaning
5．1．1 Reference
5．1．2 Concept
5．1．3 Sense：
5．2 Motivation
5．2．1 Onomatopoeic Motivation
5．2．2 Morphological Motivation
5．2．3 Semantic Motivation
5．2．4 Etymological Motivation
5．3 Types of Meaning
5．3．1 Grammatical Meaning and Lexical Meaning
5．3．2 Conceptual Meaning and Associative Meaning
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 6 Sense Relations and Semantic Field
6．1 Polysemy
6．1．1 Two Approaches to Polysemy
6．1．2 Two Processes of Development
6．2 Homonymy
6．2．1 Types of Homonyms
6．2．2 Origins of Homonyms
6．2．3 Differentiation of Homonyms from Polysemant
6．2．4 Rhetoric Features of Homonyms
6．3 Synonymy
6．3．1 Definition of Synonyms
6．3．2 Types of Synonyms
6．3．3 Sources of Synonyms
6．3．4 Discrimination of Synonyms
6．4 Antonymy
6．4．1 Types of Antonyms
6．4．2 Some of the Characteristics of Antonyms
6．4．3 The Use of Antonyms
6．5 Hyponymy
6．6 Semantic Field
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 7 Changes in Word Meaning
7．1 Types of Changes
7．1．1 Extension
7．1．2 Narrowing
7．1．3 Elevation
7．1．4 Degradation
7．2 Causes of Changes
7．2．1 Extra-linguistic Factors
7．2．2 Linguistic Factors
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 8 Meaning and Context
8．1 Types of Context
8．1．1 Extra-linguistic Context
8．1．2 Linguistic Context
8．2 The Role of Context
8．2．1 Elimination of Ambiguity
8．2．2 Indication of Referents
8．2．3 Provision of Clues for Inferring Word-meaning
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 9 English Idioms
9．1 Characteristics of Idioms
9．1．1 Semantic Unity
9．1．2 Structural Stability
9．2 Classification of Idioms
9．2．1 Idioms Nominal in Nature
9．2．2 Idioms Adiectival in Nature
9．2．3 Idioms Verbal in Nature
9．2．4 Idioms Adverbial in Nature
9．2．5 Sentence Idioms
9．3 Use of Idioms
9．3．1 Stylistic Features
9．3．2 Rhetorical Features
9．3．3 Variations of Idioms
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 10 English Dictionaries
10．1 Types of Dictionaries
10．1．1 Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries
10．1．2 Linguistic and Encyclopedic Dictionaries
10．1．3 Unabridged，Desk and Pocket Dictionaries
10．1．4 Specialized Dictionaries
10．2 Use of Dictionaries
10．2．1 Choice of Dictionaries
10．2．2 Content of the Dictionary
10．2．3 Use of the Dictionary
10．3 Three Good General Dictionaries
10．3．1 Longrnan Dictionary of Contemporary
English(LDCE)New Edition(1987)
10．3．2 Collins COBU儿D English Language Dictionary(CCELD)(1987)
10．3．3 A Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition)(CED)(1995)
Questions and Tasks
Suggested Answers
Reference Books
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后记
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