ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lexical Semantics, Beagle, Pragmatics
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Semantics (the meaning of utterances/words in a strictly linguistic sense) Scarlet, pink, rose: all part of the category red: there is nothing that is concretely red, e. g. Poodle, corgi, beagle: all part of the category dog: dog can pertain to multiple semantic domains, synonyms, words that have different sounds but similar meaning, e. g. Home, abode, dwelling, pad; large, big, huge: homonyms, words that sound the same but have different meaning, e. g. Nose versus knows; fowl versus foul: this is what punning is based on, antonyms, words that have opposite meaning, they don"t stand alone, they are part of a larger grouping of words, complimentary pairs, e. g. Male/female; yes/no: gradable pairs: there are also terms with a shifting meaning that are relative, e. g. Thick/thin: semantic properties (sets of words that share semantic meaning, semantic domains, e. g. All mammals have something in common: markedness, refers to certain terms are derivative of the unmarked form, e. g.
