Лекции по лексикологии английского языка. Гусева Г.В. - 61 стр.

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Specialized dictionaries of synonyms are also widely used. There are

unilingual dictionaries: A Dictionary of English Synonyms and Synonymous

Expressions by R. Soule, Webster‘s Dictionary of Synonyms. The best known

bilingual dictionary is English Synonyms compiled by Y. Apresyan.

Phraseological dictionaries describe idioms and colloquial phrases, proverbs.

Some of them have examples from literature. The most famous bilingual dictionary

of phraseology was compiled by A.V. Koonin. It consists of one volume and

contains a lot of data.

Etymological dictionaries trace present-day words to the oldest forms of

these words and forms of these words in other languages. One of the best

etymological dictionaries was compiled by W. Skeat.

Pronouncing dictionaries record only pronunciation. The most famous is D.

Jones‘s Pronouncing Dictionary.

Dictionaries of neologisms are : a four-volume Supplement to NED by

Burchfield, Beyond the Dictionary by Brian Locket, Bloomsary Dictionary of New

Words and others.

Lecture 16

Methods and Procedures of Lexicological Analysis

I. Stages of Scientific Research

The process of scientific research consists of the following stages:

observation, classification, generalization and verification. Observation is the

collection of data. Classification is the orderly arrangement of these data.

Generalization is the formulation of a hypothesis, rule or law. Verification seeks

the proof for the generalization.