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9780826494795

Lexicology A Short Introduction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826494795

  • ISBN10:

    082649479X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-04-09
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

This readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of lexicology. The first section of the book is a survey of the study of words, providing students with an overview of basic issues in defining and understanding the word as a unit of language. This section also examines the history of lexicology, the evolution of dictionaries and recent developments in the field. The second section extends this study of lexicology into the relationship between words and meaning, etymology, prescription, language as social phenomenon and translation.

Table of Contents

Lexicologyp. 1
What is a word?p. 1
Methods in lexicology: the dictionaryp. 5
Methods in lexicology: the thesaurusp. 11
History of lexicology: India, China, the Islamic world, Europep. 16
Evolution of the dictionary and the thesaurus in Englandp. 19
Words and Meaningp. 23
Words in languagep. 23
Words and meaningp. 24
Etymologyp. 33
Prescriptionp. 42
A social view of language and meaningp. 50
Saussure and Firthp. 56
Cognitive linguisticsp. 62
Language and realityp. 66
Language and languagesp. 78
Translationp. 88
The Future of Lexicologyp. 94
Recent developments in lexicologyp. 94
Sources and resourcesp. 100
Glossaryp. 104
Referencesp. 110
Indexp. 115
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