English Philology
Lexicography
Faculty of Philology, Department of English Philology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Linas Selmistraitis
Room 209, Department of English Philology, Lithuanian
University of Educational Sciences, 39 Studentų St., Vilnius
LT-08106, Lithuania, tel. +370 5 2757258, e-mail:
selmisas@gmail.com
English
Language of Instruction
BA in English Philology
Required Prerequisites
Suggested Academic Cycle MA studies (from 2nd year of studies)
or Year of Studies
Autumn
Semester
3
ECTS Credits
3
Contact Hours per Week
Elective
Compulsory/ Elective
Lectures, seminars and individual consultations
Methods of Teaching
Examination
Form of Assessment
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Course Description
Studies of lexicography develop students’ sociolinguistic, pragmatic and strategic
competences, teaches them how to study and research language independently. The study
course deepens theoretical knowledge, develops students’ vocabulary through communicative
activities, teaches students to describe meanings of new words, compare definitions of the
words in different dictionaries.
Topics of the course:
Lexicography as a branch of linguistics. Headwords of the dictionary.
Types of linguistic dictionaries.
Content and peculiarities of entries.
Lexicography and etymology. Lexicography and semantics. Stylistics and
lexicography.
The arrangement of definitions in the entry.
The word and context.
Electronic dictionaries. Electronic corpus.
The short history of English lexicography in comparison with the Lithuanian one.
Modern dictionaries.
Application of dictionaries in practical work.
Readings
1. Halliday M.A.K., Teubert W., Yallop C., Cermakova A. Lexicology and Corpus
Linguistics. London: Continuum, 2004.
2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. OUP, 2005, 2004, 2002.
3. Longman Language Activator. Longman. 2002.
4. Longman Idioms Dictionary. Longman. 2000.
5. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman. 2003