| Description
| This course aims to meet the needs of advanced learners of English who are in the pursuit of near-native knowledge. Phraseology and lexical pragmatics are the two sides of one coin, namely, the lexical use in real-world communication. Both aspects are key to the proper interpretation and production of a language in its natural use. Phraseology addresses the conventional patterns of language use, such as the pervasiveness of formulaic/idiomatic expressions and appropriate collocations. On the other hand, lexical pragmatics concerns itself with the creative and at the same time mainstream, re-occurring patterns of lexical variations. The recent rapidly growing area of lexical pragmatics explores lexical dynamics as well as their underpinning rhetorical functions, such as phenomena of meaning narrowing, expansion, evolution, deviation, modification, etc. Through this course, students are expected to acquire facets of knowledge including lexical/phraseological units and their meaning.
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