Semantics is the study of meaning in words, sentencesm, and phrases. In semantics there are three types of meaning. They are linguistic, social and affective. In this chapter there are a number of semantic fields covered including hyponymy, part/whole relationships, synonymy, antonymy, and converseness.
Hyponymy refers to a group of words that can be categorized into a generalized term.
Converseness refers to a reciprocal relationship between words. An example would be teacher and student or employee and employer
Synonymy in this relationship the words have the same meaning.
an example of a part/whole relationship is the body-arm, foot, and hands. The last three are all parts of the body and the whole is the body.
antonymy is the opposite of synonymy so the words are opposites.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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