Rudzka-Ostyn Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds

A Cognitive Approach
Nachdruck 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-019723-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds is a textbook for guided self-learning intended for post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It contains some 1,100 phrasal compounds used with 17 particles/prepositions which combine with some 500 different verbs, nouns and adjectives. Numerous glosses allow the teacher to use it in very heterogeneous classes.

Thanks to cognitive linguistics the material is organized around each particle giving the students an astonishing insight into the networks of metaphorical meanings of each particle. Furthermore, the book implements the most important findings and techniques in the field of learning a foreign language. This textbook will be a valuable companion for teachers and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;11
2;Introduction: Words and the World;17
3;1. OUT is leaving a container;30
4;2. INis entering or being inside a container;64
5;3. INTO is entering a container;85
6;4. UPis positive verticality;91
7;5. DOWN is negative verticality;120
8;6. OFF is breaking contact;137
9;7. AWAY is disappearing;155
10;8. ON is contact;165
11;9. OVER is higher than and close to;176
12;10. BACK is returning;189
13;11. ABOUT is dispersion;196
14;12. (A)ROUND is vicinity or circular motion;200
15;13. ABOUT/(A)ROUND is dispersion vs. circular motion;203
16;14. ACROSS is motion to opposite side;209
17;15. THROUGH is crossing a container;211
18;16. BY is vicinity or path;216
19;17. ALONG is parallel path or entity;220

Leseproben

5.8 Key to ‘Expand and test your knowledge of ‘down’’ (S. 118-119)

2 Fill in the phrasal verb and paraphrase/explain their meanings.

1 go down (imposed by the people on top, it was not accepted well by the people ‘down’) – 2 voted down (the suggestion was brought up but it went ‘down’ since it was not accepted) – 3 run down (from an erect position the person was lying flat) – 4 cut down (decrease its production) – 5 get down to work – 6 slow down – 7 worn down (<, wear), tired, exhausted – 8 clamping down on – 9 spiral down – 10 scale down/lower – 11 step down – 12 run down/ be low – 13 track down

3 Paraphrase the meaning of the following or show through collocations that you understand them.

1 to eat quickly and greedily (the way wolves or dogs do), food goes down from the mouth to the stomach – 2 to take down/write down sth quickly, hastily (writing is an activity from higher up (thinking, hearing) to lower, down on paper) –

3 to take, pull down a building, a picture, a statue (from vertical to (more) horizontal, flat, a heap of rubble – 4 (after a lot of exciting, nervous wandering) start living a quiet, calm life in a fixed place, fig. settle down to: start an activity giving full attention to it – 5 to talk loudly and so much that the other(s) have to stop talking – 6 to make one less excited or frustrated (from a ‘high’/intense state or activity to a low(er) one) – 7 to heat an object until it becomes liquid (usually of metals) – 8 to defeat (majority against minority) a proposal, a motion – 9 to try to make sth (an incident) look less important than it is – 10 to reduce sth in numbers or size (the workforce in a factory), cf. slim: not fat, thin, to slim: to lose weight, also fig.: there is still a slim (small) hope – 11 to lower to the right level (the wages, incomes of the rich to those of the poor) – 12 to fasten by hitting nails with a hammer – 13 an object (on the floor), to write down an idea, a suggestion, to kill an animal, a plane (to land on the runway), a person (make him look stupid, silly), a sum of money (paying part of the cost of an object when buying it), to suppress a rebellion – 14 to take off, to remove all clothing, all parts of a machine – 15 to move downwards with a continuous winding curve (inflation, a plane) 4 Fill in the verbs that go with the following collocations and explain/justify the use of ‘down’. 1 prune down/back – 2 run down – 3 bring down – 4 tie down – 5 close down – 6 vote down – 7 to shoot down – 8 (can) break down – 9 crash down 5 Give a near-synonym of the following. 1 to scribble down/put down – 2 to gobble down – 3 to reduce sth in numbers or size (the workforce in a factory), cf. to slim: to get thinner – 4 to tie down/up – 5 to touch down – 6 to push down – 7 to come down on sb – 8 to get down to (business, work)

Über Autor(innen)

Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn was Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Paul Ostyn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Namur, Belgium.