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Semantic/ meaning Fields and Components of Meaning

Semantic/ meaning Fields and Components of Meaning. Semantic field. The students analyze a text and discuss with their teacher Fish, fisherman, fishhook, wave, boat, sea. Infant, child, adolescent, adult Mother, father, daughter, child, grand mother, grand father, uncle.

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Semantic/ meaning Fields and Components of Meaning

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  1. Semantic/ meaning Fields and Components of Meaning

  2. Semantic field • The students analyze a text and discuss with their teacher • Fish, fisherman, fishhook, wave, boat, sea. • Infant, child, adolescent, adult • Mother, father, daughter, child, grand mother, grand father, uncle.

  3. Semantic/ meaning components/ semantic features/ semantic properties/ markers component/ semantic primitives • mother human, female, adult, married. • father human, male, adult, married. • Bicycle • Motorcycle

  4. Horse sheep • Mammals yes yes • Four legs yes yes • Herbivore yes yes • Animal farm yes yes

  5. Words which stay in one semantic field are classified into  collocation (linear)  set (paradigmatic)

  6. Components of meanings

  7. Examples of componential analysis

  8. Reasons for identifying such components are: • They may allow an economic characterization of the lexical and sentential relations. • It shows the sentence relations like the contradiction, e. g. a. Ferdinand is dead. b. Ferdinand is alive. and entailment, e. g. a. Henrietta cooked some lamb chops .. b. Henrietta cooked some meat. • They have linguistic import outside semantics. It can help to describe a range of syntactic and morphological process. • They provide us with an unique view of conceptual structure or psychological architecture.

  9. To show hyponymy • woman [FEMALE] [ADULT] HUMAN] • spinster [FEMALE] [ADULT] HUMAN] [UNMARRIED] • Wife [FEMALE] [ADULT] HUMAN] [MARRIED]

  10. To show antonymy. bachelor [MALE] [ADULT] [HUMAN] [UNMARRIED] spinster [FEMALE] [ADULT] [HUMAN] [UNMARRIED] wife [FEMALE] [ADULT] [HUMAN] [MARRIED]

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