《新编英语词汇学教程（第二版）》为英语专业专业方向必修课“英语词汇学”的推荐教材。本书涉及现代英语词汇学研究的诸多领域，其中包括英语词语的起源问题、词汇及其结构特征、构词法、词义及词义关系、词的词义演变、使用中的词、英语习语、英国英语与美国英语等。本书不但涉及经典的词汇学内容，而且紧跟英语词汇学研究的前沿，并吸收了语义学、语用学、认知语言学等学科的最新成果，对英语词汇学进行了全新的介绍和阐释。本书不仅做到理论与实践的有机结合，又体现知识性、学术性和趣味性。

Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Tower of Babel
1.2 Lexicology defined
1.3 The structure of English vocabulary
1.4 Lexicology and its related disciplines
1.4.1 Morphology
1.4.2 Semantics
1.4.3 Etymology
1.4.4 Phraseology
1.4.5 Lexicography
1.5 Summary
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Two The Origin of English Words
2.1 The origin of language
2.1.1 The divine-source theory
2.1.2 The natural-sound source theory
2.1.3 The oral-gesture source theory
2.1.4 The glossogenetic theory
2.1.5 The physiological-adaptation theory
2.1.6 The theory of interactions and transactions
2.2 Historical development of English vocabulary
2.2.1 The Old English Period
2.2.2 The Middle English Period
2.2.3 The Modern English Period
2.3 Sources of English vocabulary
2.3.1 The native elements
2.3.2 The foreign elements
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Three Word and Morphological Structure
3.1 Defining a word
3.1.1 Word as sound unit of language
3.1.2 Word as meaningful unit of language
3.1.3 Word as the smallest free form of language
3.1.4 Word as building block for phrase and sentence
3.2 Word and related notions
3.2.1 Type and token
3.2.2 Word form and lexeme
3.2.3 Compound and free phrase
3.2.4 Idiom and collocation
3.3 Morphological structure of words
3.3.1 Morpheme, morph and allomorph
3.3.2 Classification of morphemes
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Four Word Formation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Root, stem and affix
4.3 Inflection and derivation
4.3.1 Inflection
4.3.2 Derivation
4.3.3 Some ordinary derivational afftxes
4.4 Ordinary processes of word formation
4.4.1 Compounding
4.4.2 Conversion
4.5 Other processes of word formation
4.5.1 Clipping
4.5.2 Blending
4.5.3 Backformation
4.5.4 Acronym
4.5.5 Initialism
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Five Word Meaning
5.1 The elusiveness of word meaning
5.2 Major types of meaning
5.2.1 Grammatical meaning
5.2.2 Lexical meaning
5.3 Sense and reference
5.4 Sense relations between words
5.4.1 Polysemy
5.4.2 Homonymy
5.4.3 Synonymy
5.4.4 Antonymy
5.4.5 Hyponymy
5.4.6 Meronymy
5.4.7 Semantic field
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Six Major Approaches to Word Meaning
6.1 The naming theory
6.2 Componential analysis
6.3 The cognitive approach
6.3.1 The semantic triangle
6.3.2 Prototype theory
6.3.3 Levels of categorization
6.4 The pragmatic approach
6.4.1 Co-text vs. context
6.4.2 Meaning in co-text
6.4.3 Meaning in context
6.5 The stylistic approach
6.5.1 Style and stylistics
6.5.2 Stylistic meaning of words
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Seven Semantic Change of Word
7.1 Change of meaning
7.2 Approaches to semantic changes: Diachronic and synchronic
7.3 Motivations of semantic change: Linguistic and extra-linguistic ...
7.3.1 Linguistic motivations
7.3.2 Extra-linguistic motivations
7.4 Mechanisms of semantic change
7.4.1 Melioration vs. pejoration
7.4.2 Generalization vs. specialization
7.4.3 Subjectification
Exercises and discussion questions
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Chapter Eight Words in Action
8.1 Varieties of English words
8.1.1 Geographic vocabularies
8.1.2 Jargon (Occupational varieties)
8.1.3 Styles of vocabularies
8.2 Words in context