Учебное пособие в систематизированном виде содержит необходимые для изучения курса лексикологии английского языка вспомогательные материалы: планы семинаров, определения основных понятий и терминов на английском и русском языках, темы курсовых

С. О. Карцевский
Language is a process of free creation; its laws andprinciples are
fixed, but the. manner in which the principles of generation are used
is free and infinitely varied.
Noam Chomsky
Discussion

1. 
   Semiotics. Semantic, pragmatic, syntactic treatment of the sign.
   
2. 
   Properties of the linguistic sign:
   

1. 
   arbitrariness;
   
2. 
   asymmetric duality as the main linguistic cause and condition for its dynamics, cannon ball problem;
   
3. 
   nomination, types of nomination, semantic triangle.
   

3. 
   Types of motivation:
   

1. 
   phonetic motivation;
   
2. 
   morphological motivation;
   
3. 
   semantic motivation;
   
4. 
   folk etymology.
   

Terminology
Semiotics [.semz'otzks] (semeiotics, semiology, semeiology) is the general term of signs studying the signs of natural and artificial languages.
Semantics is a branch of semiotics studying the relations between signs and entities.
Pragmatics is a branch of semiotics studying the relations between signs and their users.
Syntactics is a branch if semiotics studying the relations between signs.
Arbitrariness ['a:bitr(g)rin9s] is the fundamental property of the linguis­tic sign. It is the absence of a natural connection between the signifier (form) and the signified (meaning).
Asymmetric duality [dju'^lati] is the ability of the signifier to be associ­ated with more than one signified, and the ability of the signified to be associated with more than one signifier, ex. dollar - buck, fish, dough, greenery; fish - 1. an animal which lives underwater; 2. the flesh of a fish used as food; 3. a person of the stated kind (a cold fish).