本教程内容涵盖词汇学基本知识和应用。在系统介绍英语词汇学基本概念的基础上，本教材主要探讨英语词汇概况（Lesson 1-3）、词汇历史演变（Lesson 4-7）、词汇形态和构成（Lesson 8-11）、语义和语义关系（Lesson 12-15）、联想与搭配（Lesson 16-18）、英语习语（Lesson 15-22）、英语词典（Lesson 23）。此外，本教材用了最后10课来研究英语词汇在语境中的意义和应用（Lesson 24-32），强调词汇意义与语境、认知和习得的关系，对词义进行多视角和多维度的分析和应用，帮助学习者提高英语构词能力、词义认知和理解能力。每章前中后均配有练习，帮助学生了解词义与语篇的关联性，培养学生自主学习能力和实际应用能力，提高语篇阅读中词汇理解的准确性和有效性，进一步发展词汇学习策略，形成对英语词汇知识的批判性思维和独创精神。

Lesson 1 Introduction to Lexicology
Before-class Reading: Lexicology as a Branch of Linguistic Study
1.1 Definition of English Lexicology
1.2 Domains of English Lexicology
1.3 Approaches to Study: Diachronic VS. Synchronic
In-class Exercise
After-class Reading: Lexical Knowledge VS. Lexical Competence
After-class Tasks
Lesson 2 A General Survey of Words
Before-class Reading: Linguists' Definitions of Words: Aristotle's VS. Bloomfield's VS. Antoine Meillet's
2.1 Definition of Word: Word VS. Lexeme
2.2 Definition of Vocabulary: Active VS. Passive
2.3 Classification of Words
2.4 Aspects of Words
In-class Exercise
After-class Reading: Word Frequency and Its Implication
After-class Tasks
Lesson 3 Word Form and Sense
Before-class Reading: Theory of Naming
3.1 Relation Between Word Form and Its Sense: Sense & Reference
3.2 Sense & Meaning
3.3 Classification of Meanings
In-class Exercise
After-class Reading: The Referential Theory of Meaning
After-class Tasks
Lesson 4 Historical Development of English Vocabulary
Before-class Reading: Languages and Their Families
4.1 Historical Overview of English Vocabulary
4.2 Reasons of Its Newest Development
4.3 Features of Development of English Vocabulary
In-class Exercise
After-class Reading: Main Characteristics of English Vocabulary
After-class Tasks
Lesson 5 English Loan Words
Before-class Reading: A Heavy Borrower
5.1 Sources of English Loan Words
5.2 Influence of Loan Words
In-class Exercise
After-class Reading: Nativization of English in China
After-class Tasks
Lesson 6 Semantic Changes
Before-class Reading: Copperhead: The Origin of the Famous Civil War Term
6.1 Pairs of Meanings in Semantic Changes
6.2 Types of Semantic Changes
In-class Exercise
After-class Reading: Linguistic and Non-linguistic Reasons of Semantic Changes
After-class Tasks
Lesson 7 New Changes of English Words
Before-class Reading: New Trend of English Words
7.1 Newest Development of English Words
7.2 Neologisms & Buzzwords
7.3 Cyber Words & Catchy Words
In-class Exercise
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