TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Preface to the First Edition................................................................................. 3

Preface to the Second Edition........................................................................................ 5

I. INTRODUCTION

§ 1. Definition. Links with Other Branches of Linguistics........................................... 7

§ 2. Two Approaches to Language Study.......................................................... 7

§ 3. Lexicology and Sociolinguistics.................................................................. 8

§ 4. Lexical Units........................................................................................... . 9

§ 5. Varieties of Words................................................................................................ 10

§ 6. Course of Modern English Lexicology. Its Aims and Significance . ......... ........ 11

II. SEMASIOLOGY

Word-Meaning

§ 1. Referential Approach to Meaning......................................................................... 13

§ 2. Meaning in the Referential Approach................................................................... 16

§ 3. Functional Approach to Meaning......................................................................... 17

§ 4. Relation Between the Two Approaches....................................................... 18

Types of Meaning

§ 5. Grammatical Meaning.......................................................................................... 18

§ 6. Lexical Meaning.................................................................................................. 19

§ 7. Part-of-speech Meaning ............................................................................. 19

§ 8. Denotational and Connotational Meaning ........................................................... 20

§ 9. Emotive Charge........................................................................................... 21

§ 10. Stylistic Reference..................................................................................... 21

§ 11. Emotive Charge and Stylistic Reference............................................................ 22

§ 12. Summary and Conclusions................................................................................ 22

Word-Meaning and Meaning in Morphemes

§ 13. Lexical Meaning................................................................................................ 23

§ 14. Functional (Part-of-speech) Meaning................................................................. 24

§ 15. Differential Meaning................................................................................. 24

§ 16. Distributional Meaning....................................................................................... 25

Word-Meaning and Motivation

§ 17. Morphological Motivation........................................................................ 25

§ 18. Phonetical Motivation............................................................................... 26

§ 19. Semantic Motivation.......................................................................................... 27

§ 20. Summary and Conclusions....................................................................... 27

Change of Meaning

§ 21. Causes of Semantic Change............................................................................... 29

§ 22. Nature of Semantic Change .............................................................................. 30

§ 23. Results of Semantic Change ............................................................................. 31

§ 24. Interrelation of Causes, Nature and Results of Semantic Change 32

§ 25. Summary and Conclusions................................................................................ 33