On December 5, Dr. Lise Fontaine from Cardiff University gave a lecture “A Case Study of Word Formation inEnglish: BREXIT” in Room 5A402 in the School of Foreign Studies. Thelecture was chaired by Professor Huang Guowen, Dean of the School.

In her lecture, Dr. Fontaine talked aboutthe connotation of “Brexit”. She pointed out that instead of deriving meaning fromcollocation, “Brexit” has obtained its meaning from its context. Via theconcordances from Nexis corpus, she noted that “Bexit” has undergonenominalization and now bears negative connotation.

The lecture, with its up-to-date researchcontent, has attracted a large number of teachers and students from thecollege. 

(Report by Qin Jianhua  Picture by Cen Haoxian)