15-SM-34/44
Our focus in this seminar will be word meaning as analysed by linguists and as represented in dictionaries. In other words, we will be looking at the lexicon from the point of view of lexicology (linguistic study of words), lexical semantics (study of word meanings), and lexicography (scientific study of dictionaries).
Possible MA projects include – but are not limited to – investigating various aspects of the English lexicon, such as the semantics of individual words and phrases (e.g. collocations, idioms); relations between meaning and form (synonymy, polysemy etc); the rise of new words and meanings (and disappearance of old ones); figurative language in its manifold manifestations. Another possible research area is the contrastive study of a chosen aspect of the lexicons of English and Polish (or the student's native language if other than Polish). All MA theses will incorporate a lexicographic component, examining the treatment of the lexical phenomena studied in different dictionaries or/and dictionary types. The use of electronic language corpora will likely be needed as well to support the author’s arguments with authentic data.
- Nauczyciel: Sylwia Wojciechowska