Lexicology

Lecturer, associate professor

iva eh,
Assistant, MSc Tina Orel
Frank.

Lexicology classes

Lectures: Tuesdays (15 hours)

13/10/15 2 hours, 20/10/15 2 hours,
27/10/15 2 hours, 10/11/15 2 hours,
24/11/15 2 hours, 1/12/15 2 hours,
8/12/15 3 hours.
Tutorials: Tuesdays (15 hours)
15/12/15 3 hours, 5/1/16 4 hours,
12/1/16 4 hours, 19/1/16 4 hours.

Office hours, email address

Office hours every week
immediately after the lexicology
classes,
Email ziva.ceh@gmail.com
Email tina.orel1@gmail.com

Recommended literature
Gabrovek, D.: Words Galore.
Aspects of General and Slovenian
English Contrastive Lexicology.
Ljubljana, FF UL, 2005.

Additional literature
Lexicology [electronic resource] :
a short introduction /
M.A.K. Halliday and Colin Yallop.
London ; Continuum, c2007.
eBook Academic Collection
(EBSCOhost)

Lexicology (Summary of the ebook)

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.

Exam requirements
Attendance and active
participation (20%),
a presentation prepared by the
student to be given in January 2016,
topics to be announced by December
2015, (40%),
a short written exam, (40%).

Quotes - Lexicology
Lexicology (Greek, the study of
words), in linguistics, examines all
aspects of the way words figure in
human experience, which means that
an enormously diverse spectrum of
interests is entertained, ranging from
the principles guiding dictionary
compilation to questions
concerning the storage and retrieval
of words in the mind..(Saxton,

Words
Words are not isolated units of
language, but fit into many
interlocking systems and levels.
Because of this, there are many
things to know about any particular
word and there are many degrees of
knowing. (Nation, 2001)

Words
All languages have words. Language
emerges first as words The coining
of new words never stops. Nor does
the acquisition of words. Even in our
first language we are continually
learning new words, and learning
new meanings of old words.
(Thornbury, 2002)

Meaning
words lead a double life. On the one hand,
words are simply physical things or
events noises, gestures, marks; on the
other hand, they express meanings. To
know a word is to know (at least) two
different kinds of things. First, it is to be able
to produce and recognize physical
tokens representing the word; second, it is
to understand the meanings those tokens
can be used to communicate. (Miller, 1991)

?
What is the single, biggest
component of any language course?
To learn and acquire the

QUOTES - VOCABULARY
the single, biggest component of any
language course is vocabulary. No matter
how well the student learns grammar, no
matter how successfully the sounds of L2 are
mastered, without words to express a
wide range of meanings, communication in
an L2 just cannot happen in any meaningful
way. And yet vocabulary often seems to be
the least systematized and the least well
catered for of all the aspects (McCarthy,
1990)

?
Why study vocabulary?

Why study vocabulary ?

Why study vocabulary, that is,
engage in lexicology, commonly
defined as the study of the
lexicon (i.e. word-meaning) or
lexis, specified as the vocabulary
or total stock of words of a language
(Lipka, 1990) in the age of text
linguistics, discourse analysis,
pragmatics?

Vocabulary
Vocabulary is central to both the system
and the use of language. Words are
pronounced, and written, and organized
into sentences, and other grammatical
combinations, being the fundamental units
of meaning. Words are also what ordinary
users think of as language, for they are
accessible and reflect more fully the whole
culture and respond more quickly to
changes in society(Algeo, 1998)

?
What do we call new words?

Nologisms
Aneologism(/nildzm/; from
Greekno-, "new" and lgos, "speech,
utterance") is the name for a relatively
new or isolated term, word, or phrase
that may be in the process of entering
common use, but that has not yet been
accepted into mainstream
language.Neologisms are often directly
attributable to a specific person,
publication, period, or event.(Wikipedia)

Neologisms
Words are also what ordinary
users think of as language, for they
are accessible and reflect more fully
the whole culture and respond more
quickly to changes in society
(Algeo, 1998)
Word of the year 1999?

Neologisms
Word of the year 1999 Y2K
(theMillennium bug),
Word of the 1990s WEB,
Word of the 20th century Jazz,
Word of the past millennium SHE,
Word of the 2002 to google,
Word of the 2003 metrosexual
(fashion-conscious heterosexual
male).

Neologisms

Pop-up restaurants,
staycation,
glamping,
a fascinator,
backpacking,
couch surfing,
zipline
How do we translate them into Slovene?