English Lexicology

Lecture 1：Connection of Lexicology with Other Branches of Linguistics

Lecture 2：Sources of English Vocabulary

Lecture 3：Word Formation: Compounding

Lecture 4：Blending, Backformation and Shortening

Lecture 5：Word Formation: Conversion

Lecture 6：Word Meaning and Semantic Relations

Lecture 7：Conceptual Meaning

Lecture 8：Associative Meaning: Social Meaning

Lecture 9：Associative Meaning: Collocative Meaning

Lecture 10：Associative Meaning: Connotative Meaning, Reflected Meaning, Affective Meaning

Lecture 11：Words and Gender

Lecture 12：Semantic Changes: Extension of Meaning

Lecture 13：Semantic Changes: Elevation of Meaning and Degradation of Meaning

Lecture 14：Word and Politics

Lecture 15：Euphemisms

Lecture 16：English Idioms

Lecture 17：British English and American English

Lecture 18：How to Use a Dictionary