Lexical Semantics

Lexical semantics stands at the forefront of both semantics and pragmatics research. This book endeavors to paint a comprehensive picture of lexical semantics research, tracing its developmental trajectory and key methodologies, while delving deeply into relevant significant topics. The book is divided into eight chapters.Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 discuss the necessity and importance of lexical semantics research, as well as the evolutionary course of its theoretical development. Chapters 3 to 5 elaborate on various methodologies employed in lexical semantics research during the structuralist linguistics era, the generative linguistics era, and the cognitive linguistics era, respectively. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 explore two pivotal issues: lexical semantics in context and psychological research on vocabulary and lexical semantics. Chapter 8 outlines the challenges in lexical semantics research and anticipates future directions for the field.This book is both academic and cutting-edge, serving as an important reference for researchers and graduate students in linguistic studies of foreign languages and Chinese language research. It provides valuable theoretical and practical guidance for teaching vocabulary and lexical semantics, particularly for scholars interested in lexical semantics, lexicology, and semantics research.