五、41-45名词解释*2: Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words Morphology: the study of morpheme and their different forms Semantics: the study of word meaning Etymology: the study of the origin of words, and of their history and changes in their meaning. Stylistics the study of the variation in language which is dependent on the situation in which the language is used and also on the effect the writer or speaker wishes to create on the reader or hearer Lexicography: the compiling of dictionaries Synchronic study the study of a word or words at one particular point in time Diachronic study: an approach to lexicology which studies how a word(or words) changes over a period of time word: a word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and nd syntactic fu vocabulary: Vocabulary refers to the total number of the words in a language, but it can stand for all the words used in a particular historical period. Vocabulary also refers to all the words of a given dialect, given book, a given discipline and the words possessed by an individual pe erson Terminology xie consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in med icine Jargon A]w refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves such as in usiness slang t belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words includ ing informal ones available to everyone and In-group words Argot tf generally refers to the jargon of criminals. Its use is confined to the sub-cultural groups, and outsiders can hardly understand it五、41-45 名词解释*2； Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words. Morphology : the study of morpheme and their different forms. Semantics：the study of word meaning. Etymology: the study of the origin of words, and of their history and changes in their meaning. Stylistics : the study of the variation in language which is dependent on the situation in which the language is used and also on the effect the writer or speaker wishes to create on the reader or hearer Lexicography : the compiling of dictionaries. Synchronic study : the study of a word or words at one particular point in time. Diachronic study: an approach to lexicology which studies how a word (or words) changes over a period of time. word: a word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. vocabulary：Vocabulary refers to the total number of the words in a language, but it can stand for all the words used in a particular historical period.Vocabulary also refers to all the words of a given dialect, given book, a given discipline and the words possessed by an individual person. Terminology 术语 consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine: Jargon 行话 refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves such as in business. slang 俚语 belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words Argot 黑话 generally refers to the jargon of criminals. Its use is confined to the sub-cultural groups, and outsiders can hardly understand it