Semantics

Semantics

1. In semantic analysis, there's always an attemp to focus on what the words conventionally mean

   • Semantics features
     • This Features will help you to analyze the procedure of the sentences
     • Agent: The Entity that performs the action.
     • Theme: The entity that is involved in or affected by the action, is typically non-human, but can be human.
     • Instrument: When an agent uses another entity to perform an action.
     • Experiencer: Is used to designate an entity as the person who has a feeling
     • Location: Where an entity is in the description of an event.
     • Source: Where the entity moves from a specific place
     • Goal: Where the entity moves to could be the "destination".
     • Lexical relations: Synonymy
     • Antonymy: two forms with opposite meanings
       • Gradable Antonyms: Opposites along a scale.
     • Hyponymy: What the meaning of one is described as hyponomy animal/dog flower/rose.
       • An those terms are called different: animal would be the term superordinate, dog would be the term co-hyponyms.
     • Prototypes: It helps explain the meaning of certain words, because individual experience can lead to subtantial variation in interpretation.
     • Homophones: When 2 or more different written forms have the same pronunciation
       • Homonyms: One formwritten or spoken has two or more unrelated meanings.
       • Polysemy: When one form (written or spoken) having multiple meanings that are all related by extension. Those lexical relations are the basis of a lot of word play.
     • Collocation: It is important the way how organize our knowledge of words.
     • Corpus Linguistics: Large collection of texts, spoken or written typically in a computer and helps to find out how often specific words or phrases are most common.
       • This type of research provides more evidence that our understanding of what words and phrases mean.

2. Conceptual Meaning which is the type of Meaning that dictionaries are designed to describe

3. Associative Meaning which is when people associate the word as a expression these associations may differ from one person to the next.

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