Syllabus
1. Introduction to Lexicology and Lexicography: Definitions, relationship with dictionaries and corpus linguistics, distinction between lexicon and vocabulary.
2. Lexical Items and Lexical Semantics: Overview of lexemes and words, their meaning; introduction to lexical semantics as a subfield.
3. Theories of Meaning I: Semantic triangle, componential analysis, prototype theory, and Natural Semantic Metalanguage.
4. Theories of Meaning I: Frame semantics, cognitive semantics, distributional semantics, metaphor and metonymy.
5. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in the Lexicon: Structural relationships between lexemes and their role in meaning construction.
6. Lexical Semantics of Standard One-Word Lexemes: Polysemy, monosemy, homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, paronyms and confusables.
7. Syntagmatic Relationships I: Collocations: Collocation types, corpus-based identification, distinctions between collocations and idioms.
8. Syntagmatic Relationships II: Idioms, Proverbs, Multi-Word Units: Phraseology, formulaic expressions, and borderline cases between lexicon and syntax.
9. Ontological Categories and Semantics of Word Classes: Word class-based semantic distinctions and ontological types: entities, events, properties, relations.
10. Lexicographic Description and Dictionaries: Types of dictionaries, metalanguage, definitions, monolingual vs bilingual, corpus-informed lexicography.
11. Translation Equivalents and Cross-Linguistic Lexicology: Equivalence and non-equivalence in translation, culture-bound lexemes, false friends.
12. Special Lexical Phenomena: Proper names, terminology, academic word lists, taboo words, and pragmatic aspects of vocabulary.
13. Student Presentations: Oral presentations based on individual lexical analyses conducted by students, followed by discussion and feedback.
1. Úvod do lexikologie a lexikografie
2. Lexikální jednotky a lexikální sémantika
3. Teorie významu I – základní modely (sémantický trojúhelník, prototypy)
4. Teorie významu II – kognitivní a distribuční přístupy, metafora a metonymie
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Annotation
This MA-level course explores the structure and meaning of lexical items from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Students are introduced to the core concepts of lexicology and lexical semantics, including paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, semantic theories, collocations, idioms, and the semantics of word classes.
Special attention is given to dictionary analysis, translation equivalence, and pragmatic or culturally specific aspects of the lexicon (e.g. taboo words, terminology, proper names). The course draws heavily on corpus-based examples and ends with student-led presentations.
