LIN 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Euphemism, Lexeme, Hyperbole
9 Oct 2017
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Deals with the systematic ways in which languages structure meaning, especially in words and sentences. Affective meaning: emotional connotation attached to words and utterances. Social meaning: how we identify certain social characteristics of speakers and situations. Linguistic meaning: referential meaning specific meaning. Lexical semantics: the branch of semantics that deals with word meaning. Grouping words together can constitute a semantic field. Semantic field: a set of words with an identifiable semantic affinity. In semantic fields, we have to talk about markedness. Members of a semantic field are said to be more marked if they are more unusual members. There are many ways that words can be seen as related. Hyponymy, part/whole relationships, synonymy, antonymy, and coverseness. Hyponym: a subordinate, specific term who referent is included in the referent of a superordinate term. Part/whole relationship: when a word is part of another word.
