英語詞彙學教程

《英語詞彙學教程》是普及英語詞彙學學專業知識的教材。本教材開發的指導性理念是CBI（內容依託教學），即依託有意義的專業知識內容提高學生對語言的感悟和英語語言能力。教材開發中融入了任務型教學、研究性教學的理念，旨在調動學生積極參與專業的學習。

為了保證不同水平的學生在教學中獲得較多，教材保持一定的開放，為學生推薦相關的材料以方便學有餘力和有興趣的學生進一步提高。

編寫團隊有專家參與，優秀副教授當主編，因為他們確實是中堅力量，在教學實際中對學生更瞭解。 ^[1] 

Contents

Unit 1 An Invitation to Lexicology 1

Text A What Is Lexicology 2

Text B The Secrets of a Word 9

Text C The Synonyms of Word 10

Text D Morphology 11

Unit 2 Historical Development of English Vocabulary 14

Text A English Vocabulary A Historical Perspective 15

Text B The Growth of Present-Day English Vocabulary 23

Text C A Brief History of English 25

Unit 3 Foreign Elements of English Vocabulary 28

Text A The Sources of English Vocabulary 29

Text B Latin and Greek Borrowings 35

Text C French Borrowings 36

Text D Borrowings from Other Languages 38

Unit 4 Classification of English Vocabulary 40

Text A Content Words and Function Words 41

Text B Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary 42

Text C Colloquialism in Literature 49

Text D The Importance of Function Words 51

Unit 5 Morphological Structure of English Vocabulary 53

Text A Morphemes 54

Text B Latin and Greek Roots and Affixes in English Vocabulary 62

Text C Roots and Stems 66

Unit 6 Major Word Formations in English 68

Text A English Compound 69

Text B Derived Words 77

Text C Conversion 79

Text D Deriving Nouns from Verbs Names for People 83

Unit 7 Minor Word Formations in English 87

Text A Minor Process of Word Formation 88

Text B Acronymy 95

Text C Reduplication 96

Text D Eponyms 97

Unit 8 Word Meaning and Motivation 99

Text A Word Meaning in the English Language 100

Text B Motivation of Words 102

Text C Aspects of Meaning 107

Text D Onomatopoeia 108

Unit 9 Sense Relations Between Words 111

Text A Synonymy 112

Text B Antonymy 113

Text C Hyponymy 118

Text D Oxymoron 120

Unit 10 Polysemy and Homonymy 124

Text A Polysemy and Homonymy 125

Text B Lexical Relations Hyponymy and Homonymy 132

Text C Fun with Homonyms 134

Unit 11 Semantic Changes 137

Text A Semantic Changes and the Causes 138

Text B Semantic Shift 145

Text C The History of Semantic Change 146

Text D Metaphor and Metonymy 147

Unit 12 Figurative Use of Words 151

Text A What Is Figurative Speech 152

Text B Literal and Figurative Language 153

Text C Synecdoche and Metonymy 158

Text D Taboos and Euphemisms 159

Unit 13 Meaning and Context 162

Text A Context as the Key to Unlocking Word Meaning 163

Text B Ambiguity 171

Text C Context and Context of Situation? 174

Text D Decoding Meaning Through Context 175

Unit 14 English Idioms 179

Text A English Idioms—Cream of the Language 180

Text B Major Sources of English Idioms 182

Text C Animals and English Idioms 187

Text D Food and English Idioms 190

Unit 15 English Vocabulary and Greek Mythology 193

Text A English Words of Greek Mythological Origins 194

Text B The English Word Roots and Mythology 200

Text C Words in Astronomy of Greek Mythological Origins 202

Text D The Adventures of Odysseus 204 ^[2] 

夏洋，大連外國語大學英語學院副教授。總主編常俊躍，大連外國語大學外語學院院長，編寫團隊有專家參與，優秀副教授當主編，因為他們確實是中堅力量，在教學實際中對學生更瞭解。 ^[1]