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 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?

Question 4 : 
"A rainbow"
RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoViolet
                          

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 ;