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MEANING
IN COMMUNICATION
CONTEXT
LESSON 4:
Meaning and Lexime
HOW TO EXPLORE
LEXEME/WORD
There
HOW TO EXPLORE
LEXEME/WORD
Lexical/sense
relations (meaning in
relation to other words)
Semantic
field
Synonymy & antonymy
Hyponymy & meronymy
Semantic Primes (NSM)
Componential analysis
Denotation
the world)
(meaning in relation to
LEXICAL/SENSE RELATION
While
WHAT IS SYNONYMY?
Synonymy
WHAT IS ANTONYMS?
WHAT IS HYPONOMY?
Hyponomy
WHAT IS MERONYMY?
A
is a meronym of hand.
Hard disc is a meronym of comuputer
WHAT IS NSM?
WHAT IS NSM?
Words
and "Down,
"plus and "minus
more or less
Binary taxonomy
Polarity
Relation
+LIVE = alive
-LIVE = dead
^SIZE = large
vSIZE = small
>PARENT = is the parent of
<PARENT = is the child of
(also bidirectional, such as sibling)
truth
conditions
entailment
presuppositions
selectional restrictions
implicature
connotation
vagueness
JOURNAL 4
Give