Semantic Relationship

Semantic Relationship

1. Denotation/connotation

   • words have literal or referential meanings (denotation) but also evoke feelings, attitudes, or opinions (connotations).
   • EX: soldier – warrior relax – loafinsect – bug hound – dogillness – disease

2. Polysemy

   • association of one word with two or more distinct meanings
   • EX: "The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909)

3. Homonymy

   • two words sound and are written the same but are different in mea-ning
   • EX: bark1‘outer covering of wood bark2‘harsh sound, uttered by a dog

4. Meronymy

   • a word denotes part of a whole
   • EX: Days is to weeks month is to year leave is to branch eyes is to face

5. Presupposition

   • what is assumed beforehand by an utterance,