Contents
Introduction.
What Is a Word? What Is Lexicology? 6
Chapter 1.
Which Word Should We Choose, Formalor Informal?............................................................................. 12
Chapter 2.
Which Word Should We Choose, Formalor Informal?
(continued).........................................................
27
Chapter 3.
The Etymology of English Words. Are allEnglish Words Really English?............................................... 44
Chapter 4.
The Etymology of English Words
(continued)..............................................................................
62
Chapter 5.
How English Words Are Made. Word- building................................................................................... 78
Chapter 6.
How English Words Are Made. Word- building
(contin-ued)..........................................................................................
104
Chapter 7.
What Is "Meaning"?...................................................129
Chapter 8.
How Words Develop New Meanings.........................147
Chapter 9.
Homonyms: Words of the Same Form.......................166
Chapter 10.
Synonyms: Are Their Meanings the Sameor different?.............................................................................184
Chapter 11.
Synonyms
(continued).
Euphemisms.Antonyms................................................................................209
Chapter 12.
Phraseology: Word-groups with Transferred Meanings.................................................................................................225
Chapter 13.
Phraseology. Principles of Classification .................242
Chapter 14.
Do Americans Speak English or American?...............................................................................259Supplementary Material................................................................276Sources..........................................................................................283Dictionaries...................................................................................284List of Authors Quoted.................................................................285
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