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UNIT 11
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- 1TABLE OF CONTENTS:1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE WORD AS A LINGUISTIC SIGN
3. LEXICAL RELATIONS
3.1. Homonymy
3.2. Synonymy
3.3. Antonymy
3.4. Hyponymy
4. FALSE FRIENDS OR COGNATES
5. LEXICAL CREATIVITY: WORD FORMATION
6. DIDACTIC IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND WEBLINKS - 2Semiotics is...the discipline devoted to the study of the signs or the functioning of sign systems, both linguistic and non-linguistic signs
- 3Semantics is...devoted to the study of meaning and references of linguistic expressions
- 4Saussure's work: name & yearCourse in General Linguistics
1916 - 5diachronic linguistics analyses...the changes that take place over time in a specific language, that is, its historical evolution
- 6synchronic linguistics studies...a language at a particular period of time
- 7signifier refers to...the thoroughly material aspect of the sign, described by Saussure as the “sound image”
- 8signified refers to...the mental image, that is, the concept or object which appears in our minds when we hear or read the signifier
- 9langue is...a system of differences between signs, considered as a common faculty that all human beings possess
- 10parole is...the individual acts of speech, that is, an external manifestation of language in the form of utterances
- 11lexeme is...a word as an item of vocabulary, apart from any grammatical variation
- 12morpheme is...the minimal unit of word structure
- 13A homonym is...a word with several different meanings not closely related, but same phonetic and/or orthographic form
- 14synonyms are...two or more lexemes with very closely related meanings
- 15classification of synonyms:absolute, cross-varietak & cognitive
- 16Absolute synonyms:they have the same expressive, social and descriptive meaning in any context
- 17Cross-varietal synonyms differ in...their connotation
- 18cognitive synonyms have...the same expressive, social and descriptive meaning in many contexts
- 19Election of synonyms depends on:-Variations of English
-Register
-Connotation
-Restricted collocations
-Some contexts - 20Classification of antonyms:gradable, complementary & converses
- 21hyponymy can be described as...the lexical relation which refers to a hierarchical relationship: A X is a kind of Y
- 22lexical transfer is...the phenomenon by which learners attribute to a lexical item of a foreign language all features of their first language translation equivalent
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- Oposiciones OPOSICIONES 2023 (UNIT 11. SYNONYMY. ANTONYMY. HYPONYMY. FALSE FRIENDS) Flashcards on UNIT 11, created by Miriam González Cano on 22/10/2021.
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