ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lexical Semantics, Deixis, Markedness
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Pragmatics (what words mean in the context of a sentence) The meaning of utterances in a strictly linguistic sense. Hyponyms (hyponyms for dog are poodle, bulldog, rottweiler) Synonyms (words that have the same meaning but sound different) Homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meaning (ex. Big and small, strong and weak, parent and child) Markedness: unmarked term is the default term (ex. Distinctive feature analysis: a word never exists by itself so it has multiple meanings. Analyzing properties of words. (cat has ears, meows, mammal, animals) The meaning of words in the context of sentences and other utterances. With idiomatic sentences, you need cultural knowledge (go to sleep with the fishes) Metaphor are used for rhetorical or to compare. The apache are expert auto mechanics, before that they were experts in horses. They refer to car parts as horse parts (wheels are legs).
