Saturday, June 15, 2013
Answers for question 1:
Firstly, Antonymy is the term that refers to two lexical forms that with opposite meanings, and there are two kinds of antonyms which are gradable and non-gradable antonyms.
For example, gradable: young/old, fast/ slow ,thinner, fatter.
non- gradable: dead/alive , single/ married.
Answers for question 2:
First, Homophony refers to two/more words with same pronunciation but different meanings.
For example, meat- meet, bare- bear , sew-so
but, homonymy is two/ more unrelated meanings but with the same lexical form.
example, bank
Answers for question 3:
The conceptual meaning for laptop should be a personal computer which can be use on the upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
The associative meanings can be related to words like mouse, hard disk and Microsoft windows system.
Answers for question 4:
The hypernym should be "colors" of course !
Friday, June 14, 2013
SEMANTICS
SEMANTICS
#ByGabriel
Question 1 ; In this chapter,right? We have already covered about "antonymy" under lexical relation. What are the two forms with the opposite meanings? Please provide some examples as well.
Question 1 ; In this chapter,right? We have already covered about "antonymy" under lexical relation. What are the two forms with the opposite meanings? Please provide some examples as well.
Question 2 ; Under lexical relation still. Either "Homophony" or "Homonymy" sounds like similar term,right? How to differentiate these two terms plus some examples?
Question 3 ; Regarding to "Conceptual and Associative", what are the illustrations do you link with the word " L A P T O P " under each content?
"A rainbow"
Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | Indigo | Violet |
Each colour pattern represents "hyponym", right? What is its "Hypernym" then?
Thursday, June 6, 2013
The Analysis Of “Word-Formation Process” and “Choice of Words”
The
Analysis
Of
“Word-Formation Process”
and
“Choice Of Words"
Selected Magazines
* Good Housekeeping ( March & June Issues,2013)
* Redbook (Didn't mention)
* Weightwatchers (January + February Issue, 2013)
Do click/check out these two links
Arafat's part ;
http://www.slideshare.net/Mr_Gabz89/magazine-analysisdocx-arafatspart-20
Gabriel's part ;
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