Glossary. Activation of mental lexiconis arousing a chain reaction in the brain and making the words accessible for communication (usually a lot more words than

Activation of mental lexicon is arousing a chain reaction in the brain and making the words accessible for communication (usually a lot more words than necessary get activated in the brain)

Allusion is making an indirect reference

Circumlocution is a roundabout expression of meaning

Coinage of words is creation of non-existent words

Collocation is made of two or more words often placed together in oral or written speech

Comprehension of words is understanding the meaning of words

Co-ordinates are words with a meaningful relationship between them e.g. “red + blood”

Derivation is the process of producing words from a stem with the help of affixation and other word-building models (e.g. conversion from nouns to verbs)

Idiom is a figure of speech, the meaning of which cannot be drawn from its elements

Lexical cloze is filling the gaps in the meaningful text with the target words

Lexical competence is the knowledge of how to use vocabulary for communication

Lexical mind-map is a cluster of words that are associated with a central concept

Lexicon is vocabulary that is often specialised and related to a certain field

Mental lexicon is vocabulary in mind

Metaphor is a figure of speech, in which lexical meaning is shifted to a different object and a word is used to denote figuratively a dissimilar thing (often done to add more expression to speech)

Mnemonic exercises are used to facilitate memorisation of words

Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition/adverb making up an idiomatic expression

Polysemy is the property of many words to have more than one meaning

Register is the choice of vocabulary best suited for a communicative situation (e.g. talking to children requires a special register)

Retrieval of words is accessing the words in the long-term memory for the purposes of using them

Storage of words is keeping words in the long-term memory

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is a situation when a person has accessed the meaning of the word but is failing to access the word form with many alternative “word candidates” revolving in mind

Vocabulary is the sum of words that have been acquired by a particular person

Word reinforcement is the process of making words stick in memory through meaning interpretation, drill and communicative use

Word-clusters are the words brought together by associations

Word-meaning interpretation is elicitation of lexical meaning for the purpose of comprehending the words

Word-pragmatics is the relationship between the words and intended/comprehended lexical meaning