SEMANTICS
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Come back again with
me,, we gonna talk about “SEMANTICS”
WELL,, What is SEMANTICS??
Semantics is the part of linguistics
that talk about the meaning. The meaning is not thinks about the structuralist
of a sentence. But sometimes we have to made a good sentence with a good
structuralist and have a meaning.
There are some types of semantics that
we have to know, they are :
1. Polysemy
Polysemy known
as “many meanings”, because in the same
morphological word may have a range of different meanings at a dictionary.
For example : “See”, have many meanings, such as :
-
Perceive with
the eyes, discern visually.
-
Discern or
deduce mentally after reflection or from information.
-
Meet (someone
one knows) socially or buy change.
-
Escort or
conduct (someone) to a specified place.
2. Synonymy
Synonymy is not
always having the same meaning or a complete identity, but sometimes some words
have the same sense or value for all the semantic features, although this
feature is always partial or never complete.
For example : “friend”
have the synonymys as “comrade”, “acquantaince”, “pal”, and “buddy”.
3. Hyponymy
Hyponymy is related
to complementarity and incompatibility. Its
mean that, hyponymy is a word whose meaning contains the entire meaning of
another word, the superordinate (the hypernym).
For example : “apple”
is a fruit but a “fruit” is not refers to “apple”.
4. Antonymy
Antonymy is the
relatonship of words, between words indicates oppositeness of meaning.
The kinds of
antonymy, are :
-
Antonymity :
big/small ; good/bad ; beautiful/ugly ; etc.
-
Complementarity
: male/female ; alive/died; sky/earth ; etc.
-
Converseness :
buy/sell ; push/pull ; give/take ; etc.
5. Idiomaticity
An idiom is a
group of words whose meaning cannot be explained in terms of habitual or
individual meanings of the component words that make up the phrase.
For example : a
blind allery (route that leads nowhere) ; kick the bucket (die); put down
(kill); etc.
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game that can help us to learn semantics
it is a game named as
Semantics wars. You can click this link in
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Semantics Game
SOURCE :
An Introduction to
Linguistics by Loreto Todd
A Linguistics Primer
for Malaysians by Loga Mahesan Baskaran
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