My opinion on why we study English lexicology
How many words are there in the modern English language? There is no single sensible answer to this question. It is impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it is so hard to decide what counts as a word. But it is widely accepted by linguists that there are one million or so English words now. If so, a subject is needed to study and analyze modern English vocabulary. Thus, English-lexicological learning is important in some aspects.
ⅠBetter understanding low context culture
Studying English lexicology can help us better understand different thinking styles. According to anthropologist Edward Hall, the U.S is a low context country, which communication is explicit,
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1.Affixation Affixation is the process of forming words by adding derivational affixes to stems. It is also called derivation. Words formed in this way are derivatives.
1) Prefixation
Prefixation is a way of forming new words by adding prefixes to stems. Usually, prefixes do not change the part of speech of a word. Their chief function is to modify its meaning, although there are exceptions. Prefixes can be divided, based on their meanings, into: negative prefixes, reversative prefixes, pejorative prefixes, prefixes of degree or size, locative prefixes, prefixes of time and order, number prefixes and miscellaneous prefixes. For example,
pre-: before in time, place, or rank pro-: forward, ahead of; or favoring
1. __pro______gress (move forward)
2. ___pre_____cede (come before in time)
3. ____pre____dict (tell about sth. before it happened)
4. ____pro____spect (looking forward)
5. ____pro____slavery (favoring the institution of slavery)
6. ____pre____caution (care taken beforehand)
7. ____pre____side (to sit before and act as chairman)
8. _____pre___vious (occurring before in time or order)
9. _____pro___mote (to move ahead)
10. _____pro___ceed (go forward)
2) Suffixation
Suffixation is the process of forming new words by adding suffixes to the end of stems. The chief role of a suffix is not to modify the meaning of a stem, rather to change the grammatical function of a stem, though there are a few exceptions. Suffixes can be divided
Analyze medical term is putting together a work staring with a, prefix, suffix and combing forms, the world can explain how a word can be broken down. The first term to explain is diabetic. The prefix “dia” means complete through. The root “eti/o” means cause. The suffix “ic” means pertaining to. The complete definition of the term is pertaining to complete cause.
“Authority and American Usage,” an interesting essay written by the brilliant and quick-witted David Foster Wallace, presents an argument on different ways of understanding the ever-changing American usage in the English language. Keeping up with the English language in America is like chasing your new, untrained puppy down the street. Tiring and basically impossible to get a hold of. Over the past centuries, the English language has evolved so much, that if you took a person from the 13th century and threw them in the middle of New York City in 2013, it would be as if two different languages were being spoken.
Too view language as if it were an object devoid of its social context would not be seeing language for its creation and use, language is used at its full potential when spoken, language is so important to humans, we use language to express, to think and communicate within the world we live. Language has changed over time, it is thought that at one time we had one original language that was spoken, and “as different human groups spread across the world and communicated only with each other, the original language changed in different ways in different places” (Gee, P,. & Hayes, E. (2011). pg 8), because of these changes, and socialisation of different humans, we now have many diverse human languages. Language has changed and will continue to
Upon my arrival in the U.S., I faced a cultural shock. Although I had grown up speaking English, I discovered that American English, colloquial expressions, idioms and literature were all different than what I
The first concept I am going to talk about is language borrowing. Language borrowing is basically when you loan a word that is imported into a certain language called loan form. These forms now function in the grammatical processes, with nouns taking plural or possessive forms of the new language receiving native morphemes. An example would be the English word alligator. Alligator came from the Spanish which is el largato. El largato in Spanish means lizard. Loanshift another process that occurs also known as calque is when adapting native words to the new meanings. "The verb bad mouth . . . is a calque or loan translation: it seems to come from Vai day ngatmay (a curse; literally, 'a bad mouth ').
the audience’s emotion. Secondly, epithet is an adjective or a descriptive phrase. Lastly, anaphor is when the speaker reiterates a word to catch your attention or to enhance the importance of the word or phrase.
| A _____ is attached to the beginning of a word root to modify its meaning.
b) with forms and the structure of words (morphology) and with their customary arrangement in phrases and sentences (syntax )
A component in medical terminology which is also originated in Latin means to put together. The different components are combining form, suffix and prefix. A combining form which is also called root means that one word combines with another word. It is used to signify the basic meaning of the word in a whole and is located at the beginning or the middle of the word. A suffix means something added to the end of something else. It is used as an inflectional ending that conveys definite features, including the circumstances, development and protocol regarding the condition. A prefix means to put before or in front of a word and come before the root word. It is used to identify the words meaning by revealing more information about the location and area of the body. Learning about the different components helps to learn how to divide words into separate meanings in order to understand the
The evolution of Newspeak through the years aides to the creation of a flawed utopia in Oceania. Notably, newspeak has evolved language to be simple and direct. Vocabulary A’s intention express simple, purposive thoughts. Such as, “ hit, run, dog, tree, sugar” (Orwell 301). Vocabulary B are words that can be interchangeable between a noun, adjective, or adverb and to make it a negative just add the prefix un-. In addition to, vocabulary C consist entirely of scientific and technical terms and “could only be entertained in a vague wordless form…” (310). Although Newspeak has become simplistic way of communication
Let us see how prefix and suffix changes can alter the meaning of a term without changing its central meaning by keeping the root the same:
A common theme found in each of the following essays by, Robert MacNeil’s “Do You Speak American?”, John Simon’s “Why Good English is Good for You”, or Douglas McGray’s “Lost in America”, is the idea of the English language being corrupted from both internal and external educational influences . This corrupt progression of communication contributes in cultural indifference and misunderstanding. Multiple instances of these ramifications are provide by the three authors in the examples of education failures, trendy social language rules, and a society that overlooks the corruption of the English language to convey ideas in a correct method.
words which modify a noun by showing a form of possession or a sense of belonging to a particular person or thing.
To analyze medical terms, you would break down the words with the prefix, root and suffix. For example; the word pulmonary has no prefix however pulmon/o is a combining form and –ary means pertaining to. So the word pulmonary combine is specified as pertaining to the lung. Medical abbreviations such as CXR means x-ray. Abbreviations is commonly
This is done in a specific order, by starting with the suffix back to the beginning of the term and then across. A root might consist of having a combining vowel added to it when this occurs drop the combing vowel before a suffix with a vowel. Some examples include.