General linguistics,

Lexicology and its connections with other branches of linguistics

Lexicology meets the demands of applied linguistics (lexicography, terminology, information, literary criticism, foreign lg. teaching, in translation and functional stylistics).

It is one of working lgs of the UNO and the universal lg of international aviation.

It is used in official and business activities (India, Pakistan, other former British colonies);

Sociolinguistics is a branch of linguistics dealing with causal relations btw the ways of life reflected in the lg. (education, mass media, lg planning, etc.)

Historical lexicology studies extra-linguistic forces (changes in social, political, cultural and everyday life, in science reflected in words and their meaning).

Semantics is the study of meaning relevant both for lexicology and grammar.

Post = posta – posita (fr. Lat. Through Fr. and Italian) – place;

(16 century): ‘ One of a number of men with horses along roads to deliver the King’s ‘packet’ from stage to stage’ (obs.)

Mail (Am. from Old French male) = mail of letters ‘a bag of letters’

Sack fr. ‘To get the sack’ (to dismiss from service)

The importance of studying English lexicology:

1. It is the world’s most widely used lg.(300mln. people speak it)

4. More than a half world’s scientific literature is published in English.

5. 60% of the world’s radio broadcasts are in English.

The theoretical value of lexicology: it is the study of one of the three main aspects of lg. (vocabulary) together with its grammar and sound system.

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