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

Language is the source of misunderstanding.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Language exerts hidden power, hike a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch
We should have a great fewer disputes in the. worhd if words
were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only,
and not for things themselves.
John Locke
Discussion

1. 
   Different approaches to the definition of word meaning:
   

1. 
   referential theory;
   
2. 
   conceptual theory;
   
3. 
   functional theory.
   

2. 
   Types and aspects of meaning:
   

1. 
   lexical meaning and grammatical meaning;
   
2. 
   semantic, pragmatic, syntactic / systemic / aspects of lexical meaning.
   

3. 
   Componential analysis:
   

1. 
   its history;
   
2. 
   its types;
   
3. 
   its merits and demerits.
   

Terminology
Word is the basic unit of language. It directly corresponds to the object of thought (referent) which is a generalized reverberation of a certain ‘slice’, ‘piece’ of objective reality - and by immediately referring to it names the thing meant.
Referent is the object of thought correlated with a certain linguistic expression. Also: the element of objective reality as reflected in our minds and viewed as the content regularly correlated with certain expression.
Concept is a generalized reverberation in the human consciousness of the properties of the objective reality learned in the process of the latter’s cognition. Concepts are formed linguistically, each having a name (a word) attached to it.
Meaning is the reverberation in the human consciousness of an object of extralinguistic reality (a phenomenon, a relationship, a quality, a process) which becomes a fact of language because of its constant indissoluble association with a definite linguistic expression.