Constant Enrichment of the Mental Lexicon with New Lexis
Vol.6,No.3(2017)
The paper deals with acquiring new lexis and storing it in the mental lexicon. The results of the research list significant abstract nouns and multiword units in political discourse for the proficient user of English. Discourse analysis is based on the chronology of the most important events and facts from twentieth and twenty-first century Britain.
abstract noun; proper name; acronym; idiom; learning strategy; mental lexicon
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