Practical lexicology of the German language

Teaching results

Knowledge
The aim of this course is to extend students' knowledge and skills in the area of distinguishing the meaning, formation and use of words in a specific communicative situation. Upon completion of the course, the student will be familiar with the principles of polysemy and will be able to distinguish it from homonymy. In the context of paradigmatic relations, the student will acquire the knowledge to be able to distinguish meaning relations at the lexical level (e.g., synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, and paronymy) with emphasis on examples in the target language.
Competences
On the basis of the acquired knowledge, the student will acquire competencies and be able to understand polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, etc. as terms of meaning diversity of words. He/she will be able to identify meaning differences resulting from subtle differences in the expressive level of the target language; he/she will be familiar with terms such as faux amis (treacherous words), homophony, homography and will be able to demonstrate them, in particular through examples for relevant language pairs (the foreign language studied and the mother tongue).
Skills
The student will have a basic knowledge of phraseology and will be able to link it meaningfully with knowledge of lexicology. The student will know the nature of the concepts of metaphor and metonymy and will be able to explain the influence of the processes of metaphorisation and metonymisation on the expansion of the vocabulary of a particular language and will be able to use them effectively in the production of his/her own linguistic expression in the target language.