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.
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