2011语言学第3章.ppt

Lexicon/lexicology;;LDOCE— Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English OALD-- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English CDOEL---Collin Dictionary of the English Language DAI----A Dictionary of American Idioms Longman Dictionary of English Collocations The Oxford Study Thesaurus;What information about a word is covered in the dictionary?;e.g. ;;;;Alert ;Methods used to remember a word;Methods used to remember a word;;;;P. 55 ;;;;;;affixation;;;;;compounding;compounding;;;;;;;Lexicon Lexicology;;Lexicon/lexicology;现代英语词汇学 陆国强 编著 上海外语教育出版社;;现代英语词汇学概论 张韵斐 主编 北京师范大学出版社;;;;1. The Study of Meaning;;Logicians and philosophers have tended to concentrate on a restricted range of sentences (typically, statements, or ‘propositions’) within a single language. The linguistic approach is broader in scope, aiming to study the properties of meaning in a systematic and objective way, with reference to as wide a range of utterances and languages as possible.;2. The meaning of MEANING;3. Health means everything. 4. His look was full of meaning. ;5. What is the meaning of life?;6. What does ‘cornea’ mean? The transparent, convex, anterior portion of the outer fibrous coat of the eyeball that covers the iris and the pupil and is continuous with the sclera.;; 1.What’s word meaning?;;What is reference? (所指关系） It is the relationship between language and the world. dog 狗 referent By means of reference, the speaker indicates which thing in this world (including persons) are being talked about. It is the relationship between words and the things, actions, events and qualities they stand for. ;The reference theory (所指理论）The naming theory;The limitations of this theory are obvious. Can you identify them? P. 107 Not every word has a reference. Grammatical words like but, if, and do not refer to anything. Words like Santa Claus , God, ghost , fairy, demon and dragon refer to imaginary things, which do not exist i