Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary
 1.1 The Definition of a Word
 1.2 Vocabulary
 1.3 Sound and Meaning
 1.4 Sound and Form
 1.5 Classification of Words
 1.5.1 Basic Vocabulary and Non-basic Vocabulary
 1.5.2 Content Words and Functional Words
 1.5.3 Native Words and Borrowed Words
Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary
 2.1 The Indo-European Language Family
 2.2 Three Phases of the Vocabulary Development
 2.2.1 Old English (450-1150)
 2.2.2 Middle English (1150-1500)
 2.2.3 Modern English (1500 up to the present)
 2.3 General Characteristics
 2.3.1 Receptivity, Adaptability and Heterogeneity
 2.3.2 Simplicity of Inflection
 2.3.3 Relatively Fixed Word Order
 2.4 Foreign Elements in the English Vocabulary
 2.4.1 Major Foreign Elements
 2.4.2 Minor Foreign Elements
 2.5 Growth of Contemporary English Vocabulary
 2.6 Modes of Vocabulary Development
 2.6.1 Creation
 2.6.2 Semantic Change
 2.6.3 Borrowing
Chapter 3 Morphological Structure of English Words
 3.1 Morphemes
 3.2 Morphs and Allomorphs
 3.3 Classifying Morphemes
 3.3.1 Free and Bound Morphemes
 3.3.2 Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes
 3.3 . 3 Content and Grammatical Morphemes
 3.4 Identifying Morphemes
 3.5 Morphemization and New Morphemes
 3.6 Morpheme and Word Formation
 3.6.1 Affix
 3.6.2 Root, Stem, Base
Chapter 4 Word Formation
 4.1 Affixation
 4.1.1 Prefixation
 4.1.2 Suffixation
 4.2 Compounding
 4.2.1 Characteristics of Compounds
 4.2.2 Formation of Compounds
 4.3 Conversion
 4.3.1 Conversion to Nouns
 4.3.2 Conversion to Verbs
 4.3.3 Conversion to Adjectives
 4.3.4 Changes Involved in Conversion
 4.4 Blending
 4.5 Clipping
 4.6 Acronymy
 4.6.1 Initialisms (alphabetisms)
 4.6.2 Acronyms
 4.7 Back-formation
 4.8 Sound Reduplication
 4.9 Commonization of Proper Names
 4.9.1 Words from Proper Names
 4.9.2 Morphological Processing
 4.9.3 Use of Commonized Words
Chapter 5 Word Meaning and Componential Analysis
 5.1 Word Meaning
 5.1.1 Reference
 5.1.2 Concept
 5.1.3 Sense
 5.2 Motivation
 5.2.1 Onomatopoeic Motivation
 5.2.2 Morphological Motivation
 5.2.3 Semantic Motivation
 5.2.4 Etymological Motivation
 5.3 Types of Meaning
 5.3.1 Grammatical Meaning
 5.3.2 Lexical Meaning
 5.4 Componential Analysis
Chapter 6 Sense Relations
 6.1 Polysemy
 6.1.1 Two Approaches to Polysemy
 6.1.2 Two Processes of Development
 6.2 Homonymy
 6.2.1 Types of Homonyms
 6.2.2 Origins of Homonyms
 6.2.3 Differentiation of Homonyms from Polysemants
 6.2.4 Rhetoric Features of Homonyms
 6.3 Synonymy
 6.3.1 Definition of Synonyms
 6.3.2 Types of Synonyms
 6.3.3 Sources of Synonyms
 6.3.4 Discrimination of Synonyms
 6.4 Antonymy
 6.4.1 Three Types of Antonyms
 6.4.2 Characteristics of Antonyms
 6.4.3 The Use of Antonyms
 6.5 Hyponymy
 6.6 Semantic Field
Chapter 7 Changes in Word Meaning
 7.1 Types of Change
 7.1.1 Extension of Meaning
 7.1.2 Narrowing of Meaning
 7.1.3 Elevation of Meaning
 7.1.4 Degradation of Meaning
 7.1.5 Transfer of Meaning
 7.2 Mechanism of Change
 7.3 Causes of Change
 7.3.1 Extra-linguistic Factors
 7.3.2 Linguistic Factors
Chapter 8 Meaning and Context
 8.1 Types of Context
 8.1.1 Extra-linguistic Context
 8.1.2 Linguistic Context
 8.2 The Role of Context
 8.2.1 Elimination of Ambiguity
 8.2.2 Indication of Referents
 8.2.3 Provision of Clues for Inferring Word Meaning
Chapter 9 English Idioms
 9.1 Characteristics of Idioms
 9.1.1 Semantic Unity
 9.1.2 Structural Stability
 9.1.3 Idiomaticity
 9.2 Classification of Idioms
 9.2.1 Noun Idioms
 9.2.2 Adjective Idioms
 9.2.3 Verb Idioms
 9.2.4 Adverb Idioms
 9.2.5 Sentence Idioms
 9.3 Use of Idioms
 9.3.1 Stylistic Features
 9.3.2 Rhetorical Features
 9.4 Variations of Idioms
 9.4.1 Replacement
 9.4.2 Addition or Deletion
 9.4.3 Position Shift
 9.4.4 Shortening
 9.4.5 Dismantlement
Chapter 10 English Dictionaries
 10.1 Types of Dictionaries
 10.1.1 Linguistic Dictionaries
 10.1.2 Encyclopedic Dictionaries
 10.1.3 Specialized Dictionaries
 10.2 Choice of Dictionaries
 10.2.1 Monolingual or Bilingual Dictionaries
 10.2.2 General or Specialized Dictionaries
 10.2.3 British or American Dictionaries
 10.2.4 Early or Later Versions
 10.3 Intelligent Use of the Dictionary
 10.3.1 Spelling
 10.3.2 Pronunciation
 10.3.3 Definition
 10.3.4 Usage Labels
 10.3.5 Grammar Information
 10.3.6 Usage Notes and Language Notes
 10.3.7 Etymological Information
 10.3.8 Picture Illustration
 10.3.9 Supplementary Matter
 10.4 Chinese Learner-Friendly Dictionaries
 10.4.1 Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary,6th Edition 2000 《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》(OALD)
 10.4.2 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 5th Edition 2014《朗文当代高级英语辞典》(LDCE)
 10.4.3 Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of English-English/Chinese 2009 《柯林斯COBUILD高级英汉双解词典》(CCADE)
 10.5 E-Dictionaries
 10.5.1 Software Dictionaries
 10.5.2 Website Dictionaries
 10.5.3 Smartphone Dictionaries
Chapter 11 Vocabulary Learning
 11.1 Vocabulary Storage
 11.2 Schematic Learning
 11.3 Learning by Lexical Chunks
 11.4 Learning Words in Discourse
 11.4.1 Cohesion
 11.4.2 Discourse Markers and Organizers
 11.5 Learning Words with Corpus
 11.5.1 Corpus and Search Tools
 11.5.2 AntConc
 11.5.3 The British National Corpus (BNC)
 11.5.4 The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
 11.5.5 Other English Corpora and Websites
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