Dr. Prum Maol
Year I, Semester I
In this course, students learn about the use of words, and their meanings. Students focus on the theory and methodology of meaning analysis, and consider the methodology that is used in dictionaries. Students also learn how to describe lexical items including microstructure and macrostructure; how to define lexical items; compare lexical units to grammatical units; discover what is a ‘semantic field’; and cover units on etymology; meaning and denotation; how context influences polysemic units, synonymy, antonymy, idiomatic expressions, analysis of word constituents; and various approaches to the semantics of lexis.