chapter5-6senserelations

chapter5-6senserelations内容摘要：

raced back to central meaning. • Face • Concatenation: meaning „linking together‟, is the semantic process in which the meaning of a word moves gradually away from its first sense by successive shifts until, in many cases, there is not a sign of connection between the sense that is finally developed and that which the term had at the beginning. • Unlike radiation where each of the derived meanings is directly connected to the primary meaning, concatenation describes a process where each of the later meaning is related only to preceding one like chains. • For example: • Candidate • 1. whiterobed • 2. office seeker in white gowns • 3. a person who seeks an office • 4. a person proposed for a place, award, etc. II. Homonymy (同形异义 ) Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words with different meanings have the same form, ., different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both. • Types of homonymy • Perfect homonyms (同形同音异义 ) • Homophones (同音异义 ） • Homographs (同形异音异义 ) Types of Homonyms: • Perfect homonyms are words identical both in sound and spelling, but different in meaning • bank n the edge of the river, lake, etc. bank n an establishment for money business • bear n a large heavy animal bear v to put up with • Homophones are words identical only in sound but different in spelling and meaning, . dear n a loved person deer n a kind of animal son n a male child of someone sun n the heavenly body from which the earth gets warmth and light • Homographs are words identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning, . bow /bau/ n bending the head as a greeting bow /bəu/ n the device used for shooting arrows sow /səu/ v to scatter seeds sow /sau / n female adult pig P 142 • What is the difference between polysemy and homonymy? • Polysemy。