2221ENGL1415 Contrastive Linguistics (Eng-Vie) – Ms Hoa Ninh

WEEK 5

LEXICAL CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

 The big picture 1: What is a lexeme? What are the two divisions of lexicology?

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I. Contrastive Lexical Morphology

 The big picture 2: Briefly name and explain the two main branches of morphology? Are both of them within the
scope of this chapter? Why/ Why not?

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 A closer look:
1. How do we define a ‘morpheme’?

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2. Read section 4.1.2 (pp. 70-72) carefully and draw a diagram to summarise it on the next page. You may refer
to Fig. 4.1 (p. 73).
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II. Contrastive Lexical Semantics

 The big picture 3: What are the two levels of meaning? Which of them is the focus of this chapter? Why?

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 A closer look:
3. The Motivation (Internal Form) of Words: Fill in the table with key points and examples.

Definition of ‘motivation’:

4 types of motivation below:

Phonetic Graphemic Morphological Semantic
- Definition: - Definition: - Definition: - Definition:

- Examples of - Examples of folk

onomatopoeic words in etymology in Eng and Vie:
Eng and Vie:
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4. Sense Relationships
a. What is ‘sense’?

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b. What are the two main types of sense relationship? Provide a short explanation for each.

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c. What is ‘collocation’? Why does it represent syntagmatic relations?

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d. How would you translate the two puns in English on pp. 82-83 into Vietnamese?

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e. Fill in the table with key points and examples for each type of paradigmatic relations.

Synonymy

Antonymy

Hyponymy

Incompatibility
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f. What are the two ways of ‘expressing a concept’? What implications do they have for
learning/teaching/translating languages?

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5. Semantic Features
a. What is a ‘semantic feature/ component’? Give one example.

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b. What are the two approaches to the contrastive analysis of lexical fields? What is the suggested
procedure for the first approach as illustrated by the analysis on pp. 91-92 and Table 4.4 on p. 103?

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III. Three Active Areas

Read section 4.3 (pp. 93-102), what ideas/points/concepts do you find interesting? Why?

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