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1. 
   Мотивированность слов.
   
2. 
   Проанализируйте слова:
   

decolonization; wonder child; tremble, shiver, shudder; an ugly duckling; duty - free; make out; cashmere.

3. 
   Дайте определение терминам:
   

diachronic study; demonstrative meaning; etymological hybrids.
THEMES
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains
the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essentialfrocess by
which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences
of everyday life.
Charles Scribner, Jr.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
Mark Twain
The limits of my language are the. limits of my mind. All I know is
what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Theme 1
LEXICOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS
“A man with a scant vocabulary willalmost certainly be a weak
thinker. ‘The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater
one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning,
the. more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge
of things and knowledge of the words for them, grow together. If you
do not know the. words, you can hardly know the. thing”.
Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science
“As vocabulary is reduced, so are the number of feelings you can
express, the. number of events you can describe, the number of the
things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also
experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language
he retrogresses!”
Sheri S. Tepper
Discussion

1. 
   Lexicology as the science of vocabulary.
   
2. 
   The English vocabulary as a system.
   
3. 
   Lexical units: their properties and specific features.
   
4. 
   The word as a dual entity.
   

Terminology