LIN100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Snowdrift, Conceptual System, Blunt Instrument
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Chapter 6 semantics: the analysis of meaning textbook pg 181-188 (top), 192-193, 207-211. Semantics: the study of meaning in human language o. Some of the properties of the conceptual system underlying meaning. Contribution of syntactic structure to the interpretation of sentences. The roles of non-grammatical factors in the understanding of utterances. Words + phrases can enter into a variety of semantic relations w/ each other. Synonymy: words/expressions that have the same meaning in some/all contexts e. g. vacation + holiday, youth + adolescence, purchase + buy perfect synonymy is rare, if not impossible. Polysemy: a word has two or more related meanings e. g. bright => shining, intelligent / a deposit => minerals in the earth, money in the bank. 6. 1. 2 semantic relations involving sentences sentences can be analyzed in terms of their relation to other meanings three important relations: paraphrase entailment contradiction o o o o o o o o o o o o o.
