Semantic Structure of the Word and Its Changes
Lecture 3
Caerleon
Chester
The Fosse Way
Ermine Street
Watling Street
To romanise
Gnaius Julius Agricola
Caledonia
Colchester
Claudius
Archimedes
Iron-tipped plough
Cement
Clay
Gaul
to cast (=to shape hot liquid metal, etc. by pouring it into a hollow container (called a mould [məuld])
a pattern
a vessel
a sail
an oar
an oarsman
lime
volcanic ash
mortar
to plough [plau]
Syracuse
the screw, the pulley, and the lever
the Gauls
Julius Caesar
'Britain' <- "Pretani"
Britons
to pay tribute
to conquer [‘koŋkə]
conquest [‘koŋkwest]
a conqueror [‘koŋkərə]
an emperor
troops
a full-scale invasion
fierce resistance
the weapon [‘wepən]
weaponry
body armour
to subdue smb
to set up a camp
to fight (fought-fought) against smb
a tribal king
to submit to smb
the River Trent
a province (senatorial \imperial)
the River Humber
the River Forth
"Bratannia Superior"
"Britannia Inferior"
York
Cirencester
Lincoln
the Antonine Wall
Hadrian's Wall
gladiatorial combat
the Picts
the River Tyne
the River Solway
SeptimiusSeverus
illiterate
Christianity
Constantine III
the emperor Honorius
Plan:
1.Semantics / semasiology. Different approaches to word-meaning.
2.Types of word-meaning.
3.Polysemy. Semantic structure of words. Meaning and context.
4.Change of word-meaning: the causes, nature and results.
List of Literature:
1. Антрушина, Г.Б.Лексикология английского языка: учебник для студ. пед. ин-тов по спец. № 2103 "Иностр. яз." / Г.Б. Антрушина, О.В. Афанасьева, Н.Н. Морозова; под ред. Г.Б. Антрушиной. – М.: Высш. школа, 1985. – С. 129–142, 147–160.
2. Воробей, А.Н. Глоссарий лингвистических терминов / А.Н. Воробей, Е.Г. Карапетова. – Барановичи: УО "БарГУ", 2004. – 108 с.
3. Дубенец, Э.М.Современный английский язык. Лексикология: пособие для студ. гуманит. вузов / Э.М. Дубенец. – М. / СПб.: ГЛОССА / КАРО, 2004. – С. 74–82, 123–127.
4. Лексикология английского языка: учебник для ин-тов и фак-тов иностр. яз. / Р.З. Гинзбург [и др.]; под общ. ред. Р.З. Гинзбург. – 2-е изд., испр. и доп. – М.: Высш. школа, 1979. – С. 13–23, 28–39, 47–51.
5. Лещева, Л.М. Слова в английском языке. Курс лексикологии современного английского языка: учебник для студ. фак-в и отдел. английского языка (на англ. яз.) / Л.М. Лещева. – Минск: Академия управления при Президенте Республики Беларусь, 2001. – С. 36–56. (Электронный ресурс).
List of Terms:
Semantics
referent
functional meaning
grammatical meaning
lexical meaning
denotational meaning
connotational meaning
polysemanticword
polysemy
a model of polysemy
lexical-semantic variants
basic meaning
peripheral meaning
primary meaning
secondary meaning
radiation
concatenation
lexical context
grammatical context
thematic context
ellipsis
differentiation of synonyms
linguistic analogy
metaphor
metonymy
restriction of meaning
extension of meaning
ameliorative development of meaning
pejorative development of meaning.