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Chapter 1 English Words and Lexicology——Basic Concepts

 1.1 Understanding Words

 1.2 Understanding Lexicology

 1.3 An Introduction to Works of Lexicology

Chapter 2 The Growth of the English Vocabulary （1）——Sources

 2.1 The Language Family of English

 2.2 From Old English to Modern English

 2.3 The Origins of English Words

Chapter 3 The Growth of the English Vocabulary （2）——British & American

 3.1 World Englishes

 3.2 British English

 3.3 American English

 3.4 The Future of English

Chapter 4 The Growth of the English Vocabulary （3）——New Words

 4.1 Neologisms

 4.2 The Study of New Words

 4.3 Reasons of the Gr6wth

 4.4 Sources for New Words

Chapter 5 The Formation of English Words （1）——Major Types

 5.1 Notions of Morphological Formation

 5.2 DerivatiOn

 5.3 Conversion

 5.4 Compounding

Chapter 6 The Formation of English Words （2）——Minor Types

 6.1 Abbreviation

 6.2 Back-formation

 6.3 Onomatopoeia

 6.4 Reduplication

Chapter 7 The Meanings of English Words （1）——Aspects of Meaning; Change of Meaning

 7.1 Aspects of Meaning

 7.2 Change of Meaning

 7.3 Mechanisms for Meaning Change

Chapter 8 The Meanings of English Words （2）——Sense Relations

 8.1 Synonymy

 8.2 Antonymy

 8.3 Polysemy

 8.4 Homonymy

 8.5 Hierarchical Relations

Chapter 9 Lexical Chunks （1）——Collocations

 9.1 Lexical Chunking

 9.2 Definition of Collocation

 9.3 The Features of Collocation

 9.4 Characteristics, Classifications and Categories of Collocations

 9.5 Basic Types of Collocations

 9.6 The Significance of Learning Collocations

Chapter 10 Lexical Chunks （2）——Idioms

 10.1 Definition of Idiom

 10.2 Classifications of Idioms

 10.3 Figurative Idioms

Chapter 11 The Use of English Words （1）——Words in Context

 11.1 Words and Their Meanings in Use

 11.2 The Meanings of Words: "Mean" and "Meaning"

 11.3 Lexical Semantics

 11.4 Lexical Semantics and Lexical Pragmatics

 11.5 Lexical Meaning and the Context

 11.6 Meanings of English Words in Lexical Pragmatics

Chapter 12 The Use of English Words （2）——Metaphor, Metonymy, etc.

 12.1 An Introduction to Figures of Speech: the Figurative Uses of Words

 12.2 English Words in Metaphor

 12.3 English Words in Metonymy

 12.4 Other Figurative Uses of English Words

Chapter 13 The Dictionaries of English Words （1）——Types of Dictionaries

 13.1 The Development of Dictionaries

 13.2 The Contents of Dictionaries

 13.3 The Types of Dictionaries

Chapter 14 The Dictionaries of English Words （2）——How to Use Dictionaries

 14.1 How to Use Dictionaries

 14.2 Corpus and Lexicography

 14.3 Electronic Dictionaries

Chapter 15 The Learning of English Words （1）——The Mental Lexicon

 15.1 Memory in the Language-Processing System

 15.2 The Mental Lexicon and Its Organization

 15.3 Variables Influencing Lexical Access

Chapter 16 The Learning of English Words （2）——Learning Strategies and Tactics

 16.1 The Vocabulary Size

 16.2 Vocabulary Acquisition

 16.3 Vocabulary Learning Strategies

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