Chapter 1  English Words and Lexicology -- Basic Concepts
  1.1  Understanding Words
  1.2  Understanding Lexicology
  1.3  An Introduction to Works of Lexicology
Chapter 2  The Growth of the English Vocabulary (1) -- Sources
  2.1  The Language Family of English
  2.2  From Old English to Modern English
  2.3  The Origins of English Words
Chapter 3  The Growth of the English Vocabulary (2) -- British & American
  3.1  World Englishes
  3.2  British English
  3.3  American English
  3.4  The Future of English
Chapter 4  The Growth of the English Vocabulary (3) -- New Words
  4.1  Neologisms
  4.2  The Study of New Words
  4.3  Reasons of the Gr6wth
  4.4  Sources for New Words
Chapter 5  The Formation of English Words (1) -- Major Types
  5.1  Notions of Morphological Formation
  5.2  DerivatiOn
  5.3  Conversion
  5.4  Compounding
Chapter 6  The Formation of English Words (2) -- Minor Types
  6.1  Abbreviation
  6.2  Back-formation
  6.3  Onomatopoeia
  6.4  Reduplication
Chapter 7  The Meanings of English Words (1) -- Aspects of Meaning; Change of Meaning
  7.1  Aspects of Meaning
  7.2  Change of Meaning
  7.3  Mechanisms for Meaning Change
Chapter 8  The Meanings of English Words (2) -- Sense Relations
  8.1  Synonymy
  8.2  Antonymy
  8.3  Polysemy
  8.4  Homonymy
  8.5  Hierarchical Relations
Chapter 9  Lexical Chunks (1) -- Collocations
  9.1  Lexical Chunking
  9.2  Definition of Collocation
  9.3  The Features of Collocation
  9.4  Characteristics, Classifications and Categories of Collocations
  9.5  Basic Types of Collocations
  9.6  The Significance of Learning Collocations
Chapter 10  Lexical Chunks (2) -- Idioms
  10.1  Definition of Idiom
  10.2  Classifications of Idioms
  10.3  Figurative Idioms
Chapter 11  The Use of English Words (1) -- Words in Context
  11.1  Words and Their Meanings in Use
  11.2  The Meanings of Words: "Mean" and "Meaning"
  11.3  Lexical Semantics
  11.4  Lexical Semantics and Lexical Pragmatics
  11.5  Lexical Meaning and the Context
  11.6  Meanings of English Words in Lexical Pragmatics
Chapter 12  The Use of English Words (2) -- Metaphor, Metonymy, etc.
  12.1  An Introduction to Figures of Speech: the Figurative Uses of Words
  12.2  English Words in Metaphor
  12.3  English Words in Metonymy
  12.4  Other Figurative Uses of English Words
Chapter 13  The Dictionaries of English Words (1) -- Types of Dictionaries
  13.1  The Development of Dictionaries
  13.2  The Contents of Dictionaries
  13.3  The Types of Dictionaries
Chapter 14  The Dictionaries of English Words (2) -- How to Use Dictionaries
  14.1  How to Use Dictionaries
  14.2  Corpus and Lexicography
  14.3  Electronic Dictionaries
Chapter 15  The Learning of English Words (1) -- The Mental Lexicon
  15.1  Memory in the Language-Processing System
  15.2  The Mental Lexicon and Its Organization
  15.3  Variables Influencing Lexical Access
Chapter 16  The Learning of English Words (2) -- Learning Strategies and Tactics
  16.1  The Vocabulary Size
  16.2  Vocabulary Acquisition
  16.3  Vocabulary Learning Strategies
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