LIN101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homograph, Hyponymy And Hypernymy, Homophony
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Semantics the analysis of how words and phrases combine to give interpretable meaning. Meanings are rarely absolute- semantics is heavily influenced by pragmatics (the way speaker" and listeners" beliefs and knowledge interact with the context of discourse) Very often the case in languages that borrow vocabulary extensively from other languages. Notice that all of these have slightly different shades of meaning. Perfect synonymy is extremely rare because it would be insufficient for a language. However, antonyms don"t necessarily contrast in the same aspects of their meaning. Ugly & beautiful are not opposite in the same way that buy & sell are. *other relations includes hyponym: dog and other specific name regarding dog"s type. When a word has at least two related meanings: bright: shining, intelligent , to glare: to shine extensively, to stare angrily. Homophony: (two separate entries in the dictionary since we assume that they are separate words)
