Lecture english lexicology as a subject plan of the lecture

Morphology as a branch of Lexicology studying the structure of a word, types of morphemes and stems; Word formation as a branch of Lexicology studies all types of creating new words, some of which are productive (affixation, compounding, etc.), and others which either were productive diachronically (sound and stress interchange), or are frequently used in certain registers (abbreviation, blending, etc.). Phraseology as a branch of Lexicology is specializing in the phraseological subsystem of language and is concerned with all types of set expressions; Lexicography as the science of dictionary-compiling, deals with the problems of the printed presentation of the vocabulary units, their forms, meaning, usage, origin, etc.; Etymology is the science studying the origin of the words, native and borrowed lexical units, ways of the assimilation of borrowed words, external replenishment of the vocabulary, and Methodology of linguistic research, the branch specializing the description and ways of application of the methods of lexicological analysis of the texts. A special branch of Lexicology deals with the English language varieties, studying the variants and dialects of English.

All branches of Lexicology are closely connected with other sciences of the language – its History, Phonetics, Grammar, Stylistics, etc. These branches provide data for the studies in Lexicology and vice versa. Each of the linguistic science in its turn has different aspects and subdivisions depending on the research approach and data collected and analysed.

The vocabulary of the language is comprised of lexical units- which are two-facet language units with a sound form and a meaning. In Lexicology we distinguish 3 types of lexicological elements - words, word-formational morphemes and word-groups (or phraseological units /set expressions).
E.g.
care, -less, man
careful, -ful, mankind
bodycare, -ment freshman
to take care of, mis- showman
to care for, un- man of the world
to care about post- man of god - priest
However it is supposed that the word is the basic unit of the language system, the largest in the morphological and the smallest in the syntactic plane of linguistic analysis. Speaking about linguistic meaning linguists most often imply the meaning of the word, as the word integrates most of the features of all language elements: it has a sound form, it has a meaning, it can function as a word, as a part of the word, as a part of the sentence and as a sentence. Although there are many definitions of the word (phonetic, grammatical, lexical, communicative, even typographical, etc.), still there is no one universal definition, due to its multifaceted nature. Compare the meanings of the lexeme WORD in LinguoUniversal dictionary:
“Word - 1) one of the units of speech or writing that native speakers of a language usually regard as the smallest isolable meaningful element of the language, although linguists would analyse these further into morphemes Related adj: lexical , verbal; 2) an instance of vocal intercourse; chat, talk, or discussion to have a word with someone; 3) an utterance or expression, esp a brief one a word of greeting; 4) news or information he sent word that he would be late; 5) a verbal signal for action; command when I give the word, fire!;
6) an undertaking or promise I give you my word, he kept his word; 7) an autocratic decree or utterance; order his word must be obeyed; 8) a watchword or slogan, as of a political party the word now is "freedom"; 9) computing a set of bits used to store, transmit, or operate upon an item of information in a computer, such as a program instruction; Phrases: 10) - as good as one's word; 11) - at a word; 12) - by word of mouth; 13) - in a word; 14) - my word! ;15) - of one's word; 16) - put in a good word for; 17) - take someone at his / her word; 18) - take someone's word for it; 19) - the last word ;20) - the word; 21) - upon my word!;22) - word for word; 23) - word of honour; 24) (modifier) of, relating to, or consisting of words a word list; 25) (verb) to state in words, usually specially selected ones; phrase; 26) (often foll by up) informal: to inform or advise (a person) • See also others…