Lexicology and Lexicography - 2nd semester
Code
711131054
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Maria Teresa Lino
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Development of skills in the areas of Lexicology and Lexicography that allow students to comprehend the function and relevance of the Lexicon within the Grammar, understand the nature and complexity of lexical properties and know the existent theories and models for their
representation. Particularly, students should be able to:
a) understand the concepts of Lexicology and Lexicography and the relation established between them;
b) describe/modelize lexical units from Portuguese;
c) acquire and use methodologies for lexicographic edition and for building lexical resources.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. The Lexicon and the natural of lexical knowledge
1.1 Lexical unit and meaning
1.2 Ambiguity, meaning in context and use
1.3 Types of semantic change
2. Teories and models of the Lexicon
2.1. Structuralist conception of meaning
(Lexical field theory; Componential analysis; Relational semantics)
2.2 Generativist Semantics
(Katzian semantics; Minimal and maximal semantics; Decompositional or axiomatic semantics)
2.3 New decompositional approach
(Natural Semantic Metalanguage; Conceptual Semantics; Generative Lexicon)
2.4 New relational approach
(WordNet; Lexical functions; Distributional corpus analysis)
2.5 Cognitive Semantics
(Prototypicality and salience; Conceptual metaphor and metonymy; Idealized Cognitive Models; FrameNet)
3. Contemporary Lexicography
3.1 Dictionary typology
3.2 Nomenclature, macro structure and micro structure
3.3 Organization of the Lexicon and lexicographic structuring
3.4 Information types and registry
Bibliography
Amaro, R. & Mendes, S. (2013), Tecnologias de Informação Linguística para Tradução, ed. revista e actualizada, 200 pp.( capítulo II).
Fellbaum, C. (ed.)1998. WordNet: An Electronic LexicalDatabase. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
Geeraerts, D. 2010. Theories of Lexical Semantics, Oxford University Press.
Hanks, P. 2003. Lexicography, in: Mitkov, R. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4869.
Peters, Wim, (s.d.), Lexical Resources, NLP group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. In http://phobos.cs.unibuc.ro/roric/lex_introduction.html
Pustejovsky, J. 1995. The Generative Lexicon, The MIT Press, MA.Fellbaum, C. (ed.) (1998), WordNet. An Electronic Lexical Database. Cambrige (MA): The MIT Press.
Verdelho, T. & J. P.Silvestre, (ed.), 2007. Dicionarística Portuguesa. Inventariação e estudo do património lexicográfico. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro. ISBN 978-972-789-234-1
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical classes and tutorial guidance, with resource to case studies and practical application of the acquired knowledge, including: i) topic presentation and explanation by the teacher; ii) discussion and analytic analysis of relevant literature on the addressed topics; iii) description and modeling of lexical units in different lexicographic contexts.
Evaluation method
Continuous evaluation, including the following components: 1 individual test (accounting for 30% of the final grade); individual and collective essays presented in class (accounting for 30% of the final grade) and a final individual test/essay (accounting for 40% of the final grade).