- •Им.М.В.Ломоносова
- •1. English phonetics and phonology Lecture
- •Explain the difference in pronunciation of words in the following series:
- •2. Divide the following words into three groups according to the accentual patterns: one primary stress, secondary stress plus primary stress, two primary stresses:
- •3. Describe the prosody of the following text using its punctuation as the starting point.
- •2. Lexicology. Lexical morphology Lecture
- •Seminar
- •Subject the following words to morphological analysis (make sure you know the meaning of the words and can give their Russian equivalents):
- •Use productive suffixes and prefixes to form derivatives from the following words:
- •3. Polysemy and homonymy Lecture
- •Seminar Topics for Presentations
- •Test Questions
- •4. Synonymy and paronymy Lecture
- •Seminar
- •From the following sentences write out cases of synonymic condensation. Look up the words - components of synonymic condensation in a dictionary and comment on their semantics.
- •Show that the following sequences demonstrate a certain semantic affinity:
- •Analyse the following ideographic synonyms. Consult a dictionary Give examples of your own:
- •Explain how paronymic attraction is manifested in the following sentences:
- •5. Phraseology Lecture
- •1. Match the underlined verbs and phrases with the phrasal verbs on the right. Which of the phrasal verbs are more ‘natural’ than the verbs they replace?
- •2. Think of the Russian equivalents of the following proverbs (as many as possible):
- •Recommended Literature
- •6. Terms and terminology Lecture
- •Seminar Topics for Presentations
- •Consult a general purpose dictionary and a terminological one and compare the definitions of:
- •Discuss the following metalinguistic expressions in terms of colligation and collocation:
- •Make a list of terminological word-combinations from your course of “Business English”. Prove that they are terms.
- •7. Monolingual learner’s dictionaries of english Lecture
- •Seminar Topics for Presentations
- •Test Questions
- •1. What are the postulates of learner’s lexicography?
- •Phrasal verb
- •Compounds and Idioms
- •Countable and Uncountable nouns.
- •Recommended literature
- •8. Bilingual lexicography Lecture
- •Common and different features of monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
- •Constraints imposed on reversibility of certain thematic groups in bilingual dictionaries. Phraseology. Morphology. Cultural connotation. Etymology.
- •Seminar
- •Теst Questions.
- •Written tasks.
- •1.Collocations.
- •2. Idioms
- •9. Terminological lexicography Lecture
- •Seminar
- •Study the following passage. Economic Growth
- •10. Grammatical morphology (Categorization) Lecture
- •Seminar
- •2. The postulates of categorization. Test Questions
- •Written tasks.
- •Recommended literature.
- •11. Grammatical morphology (Parts of Speech Classification) Lecture
- •Seminar
- •Why are some parts of speech called morphologically “under-determined” whereas others – “over-determined”? Give examples.
- •Written tasks.
- •1. Read an extract from o. Wild’s “The Picture of Dorian Grey” and comment on the grammatical status of “- ing “ forms in the text.
- •Explain the use of Tense forms in the following extract аnd its Russian translation:
- •Recommended literature.
- •12. Minor syntax Lecture
- •Seminar
- •Test Questions
- •Comment on the following examples in terms of the opposition of syntax and syntagmatics:
- •In the following texts compare and contrast the word-combinations with their Russian equivalents in order to reveal their collocational peculiarities.
- •In the following text look up word-combinations in a monolingual dictionary. Explain why some of them are not registered by dictionaries.
- •13. Major syntax (Static and Dynamic Levels of Syntactic Analysis) Lecture
- •Problems in Pronunciation
- •Recommended literature:
- •14. Major syntax (The Level of Parenthetical Insertions and the Level of Phrasing) Lecture
- •Seminar
- •Test Questions
- •Written Tasks
- •Subject the following text to syntactic analysis and comment on the use of parenthetical insertions. Polytechnics and Universities
- •A)copy the text, b) segment the text using punctuation marks, c)read the text according to the rules of segmentation by means of punctuation.
- •Seminar
- •Yearning, Earning, Learning
- •Recommended Literature
- •16. Stylistics Lecture
- •Seminar Topics for Presentations:
- •Test Questions
- •Written Tasks
- •1. Comment on your own examples for most commonly used figures of speech.
- •2. Classify the given examples 1) according to the division into tropes and figures of speech; 2) identify the stylistic device; 3) specify the nature and peculiarities of the given stylistic device.
- •Examination questions
9. Terminological lexicography Lecture
Terms verses words of the general language. Terms and nomenclature units.
Principles of terminography.
3. Features of terminological dictionaries. Terminological dictionaries for native users of English and for learners.
Seminar
Topics for Presentations
Make a presentation on one of the following dictionaries:
Аникин А.В. Англо-русский экономический словарь. М. Русский Язык 1981.
Бенсон М., Бенсон Э. Русско-английский словарь глагольных словосочетаний. М. Московская международная школ переводчиков.1995.
Жданова И.Ф. Русско-английский внешнеторговый и внешнеэкономический словарь. М. Русский Язык 1998.
Загорская А. Большой англо-русский/русско-английский словарь по бизнесу. М. 1997.
Розенберг Д.М. Бизнес. Менеджмент. Терминологический словарь. М. Инфра-М 1997.
Рябцева Н.К. Научная речь на английском языке. Руководство по научному изложению. Словарь оборотов и сочетаемости общенаучной лексики. Новый словарь-справочник активного типа. М. Флинта. Наука 1999.
Kohls S. Dictionary of International Economics. German-Russian-English-French-Spanish. Berlin 1976.
Test Questions
What is the difference between terms and words of the general language?
What principle is terminography based on?
What are the features of terminological dictionaries in so far as their content and structure are concerned?
Written tasks.
Study the following passage. Economic Growth
There is general agreement amongst economists concerned with the problems of less developed countries (LDCs) that a distinction should be made between economic growth and economic development.
Economic growth is defined as an increase in the productivity of an economy over time, giving rise to an increase in real National Income (NI). If the rate of growth of income is greater than the rate of growth of population, income per capita will also rise.
Economists distinguish between the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Gross National Product (GNP) of an economy. GDP is the total final output of goods and services produced within an economy for any given year, by both residents and non-residents. GNP is equal to GDP plus net factor (or property) incomes from abroad (that is, the difference between returns to the inhabitants of the country from property located overseas minus the returns accruing to foreigners from their property located within the reporting country). For most LDCs, net property income from abroad is likely to be negative and thus GDP will be greater than GNP.
Both domestic product and national product can be expressed in net terms (that is, after allowing for capital depreciation) and either at market prices or factor costs (that is, including and excluding respectively, indirect taxes net of subsidies). Net National Product (NNP) at factor cost is identical to (=) National Income.
1a. The vocabulary of any scientific text, in our case of a text on economics, may be classified into three main groups: 1. words of general language; 2. words belonging to scientific prose as a genre; 3. terms (specific for that concrete branch of science). Analyse the text given above in terms of the above classification.Consult general purpose and terminological dictionaries.
2. Compile a list of terms from the text given above.
2a. Using your list of economic terms give examples of those which (1) coincide with the words of the general language; (2) are specific to economics.
2b. Although ideally terms should be monosemantic, i.e. displaying a one-to-one correspondence with a scientific concept, object, etc., there are cases when terms are polysemantic, i.e. have more than one meaning. Find such terms in your list.
2c. Are there many polysemantic (combinative) terms in your list?
3. Give the definitions of the following terms.
Brand name; task force; laissez-faire; IOU; liabilities; input; output; shipping
Recommended literature.
Гвишиани Н.Б. Современный английский язык: Лексикология. М. 2000.
Гринев С.В. Введение в терминографию. М. 1995.
Даниленко В.П. Русская терминология. Опыт лингвистического описания. М., 1977
Марчук Ю.Н. Основы терминографии. М. 1992.
Akhmanova Olga, Agapova Galina (eds.). “Terminology: Theory and Method”. Moscow University Press; Moscow, 1976.